TO BOTANY. 175 



EXPLANATION OF THE TABLES, 



WITH SOME HINTS CONCERNING THE MANNER OF 



STUDYING THE SCIENCE OF BOTANY BY 



THE HELP OF THIS BOOK. 



THE first table is divided into three columns; the 

 first of which contains the names of the genera ad- 

 mitted by Linnaeus, alphabetically disposed ; the 

 second, the English names, where there are any, 

 that have been commonly received ; and the last, 

 the names of the classes and orders, to which the 

 genera respectively belong. 



The second table is likewise divided into three 

 columns ; the first of which contains the generic 

 names that are now out of use, alphabetically dispos* 

 ed ; the second, the English names that have been 

 given to them; and the third, the names of the Lin- 

 naean genera, under which they are respectively to 

 be sought in the first table. 



By the help of these tables, the reader will be 

 enabled to find the class and order of any plant he 

 may propose to examine, after he has informed him- 

 self of its botanic name : For if the name given him 

 be not the same admitted by the author we have fol- 

 lowed, and consequently not to be met with in the 

 first table, he will probably find it in the second, 

 which will refer him to the first. 



By these tables, properly used, in conjunction with 

 the book itself, it is conceived that the reader may 

 arrive not only at an acquaintance with the princi- 

 ples of the science, but even at a practical know- 

 ledge of the distinctions of vegetables, much sooner 

 than he could by reading the descriptions, and in- 

 specting the figures given by old writers, whose col- 



