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keeld, fawdy halbertedy targeted, or by the com- 

 pounds heart- (haped, egg-jhaped^ moon-JJoapedy lance-- 

 fhaped^ fpatule-fbdpedy keel-JJjapedy faw-JJjaped, halbert- 

 P:apedy t ar get -Pd aped and the like. After having 

 much canvaffed the fubjed:, we were at length re^ 

 folved to adopt the former, i. becaufe the enghfli 

 botanical lang-ua^e became thus a more exa6t relem- 

 blance of the original -, 2. becaufe it became thus much 

 more concife ; 3. htz^uk Jhape includes the whole 

 external furface, whereas the words above mentioned 

 mean only to exprefs the outlineof a particular fecftion; 

 4. becaufe when thefe v;ords already compounded 

 with the participley/j^T^r^/, become compounded a fecond 

 time, (feveral of whieh double combinations would 

 occur in almoft every page of the work) as egg-tance^ 

 Jhaped, lance-egg-pjcpedy egg'heart'P?apedy heart- egg- 

 Jhaped, they were more difficultly affociated with 

 the ideas they were defigned to exprefs, than the 

 compounds of the fimple words, egg-lanced, lance- 

 egg'd, egg-hearted, heart-egg'd. We found oariclves 

 further under the neceffity of forming participles from 

 our numerical adjed:ives, ufing the words twod 

 three d, fourdy jive dy elgbtedy for the words binay 

 ternay quaternay auinay cBona ; becaufe hinatay ter^ 

 natdy quaternatay had previouily been tranllated by 

 the \Novds,twofoldy three) old, fourfold, &c. bis by twice y 

 duo by two, jugum by pairy ge??2inus by double y and 

 didymus\>y twin ; and the fame of the other numerals* 

 1 hough fome of the compound words above mentioned 

 are perhaps rather warped from their ufual fignifica- 

 tions, yet the fame objection lies againft the correfpon- 

 dent original ones of Linneus. His words are indeed 

 not claffical, the^/ are not to be found in the works of 

 Cicero, but they might have been, as Mr. RoufTeau well 

 obfcrves, had Cicero written a Syilem of Botany. 



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