PREFACE of the TRANSLATORS. v. 



name Amygdalus includes the Peach as well as the 

 Almond y Prunus includes the Cherry, Apricot, and 

 Laurel r as well as the Plum; and Pyrus the Apple y 

 fweet-fowerd Crab, and the ^dnce, as well as the 

 Pear 'y whence it would have been productive of much 

 confufion to have given any of thefe englilh names to 

 families, which belong to individuals. The englifh 

 generic names however, which are well eflablifhed, 

 we have occafionally added in italics after the latin 

 ones. In refpedl to the mdividuals or Species of Plants 

 we have, by the advice of many of our botanical cor- 

 refpondents, retained the Trivial Zv^/;;cf ufed by Lin- 

 neus ; as it is become a kind of cognonien along with 

 the generic name ; and where it is expreOive of any pe- 

 culiarity of the plant, we have tranflated it by an equi- 

 valent en^Hlh word. The ^z/^/^/^//^;^j' from other works 

 we have placed in the. index-form, as our author has 

 difpojed them ; and have added the heft received e?iglifi 

 names in their proper places from Miller, Hudson, 

 LiGHTFooT, 6cc. and referred to them in our Index 

 of Synonymies. 



The learned reader will perceive, that we have made 

 a flight change in the conftrudiion of the fexual dif- 

 tindiions of the ClafTes on account of the greater deli- 

 cacy of modern language ; hence the words, one male, 

 and one female, are ufed in preference to one virility 

 one Jeminality. In regard to the general language, 

 we have endeavoured to copy that of Linneus with 

 the moft fcrupulous exadnefs ; for as this illuftrious 

 Naturalifl may be faid to have formed a language, 

 rather than to have found one, fuitable to his purpofe; 

 and appears to have ftudied every part of his work, 

 from the great outline of the fyflem to the moft minute 



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