VEGETABLE KINGDOM. 



DELINEATION of a PLANT, 



I. THEORY. 



GENUS. The wojl fele^i Name. 



Character natural, efiential, artificial, 

 dais and Order of the mojl excellent Syjiem^ 

 Natural Order to be demonjhated, 



SPECIES. Trivial Name. 



. Specific Difference to be demonjirated : the mojl certairiy 

 and the Jhorteji, 



Synonymies from a Defcription or feledi Figure i 

 vernacular ones. 



CRI TICISMS. Etymology of the names generic^ fpeclfic* 

 ' The Difcoverer with the time. 



The Knowledge Hiftorical, Critical, Antique, 



II. DESCRIPTION. 



ROOT duration annual, biennial, perennial. 



figure a. fibrous, branchy, fpindle-form, end-bitten. 



b. creeping, jomted, teeth-like. 



c. globular, tuberous, fafcicled, handed. 



d. bulbous : (granulated,) coated, folid, fcaly. 



TRUNK kinds Stem, Culm, Scape, Stipe. 



duration herbaceous, fome-what-flirubby, Ihrubby, arbo-* 

 refcent. 

 fubjlance folid, empty, piped, woody. 

 meajure a. (the proportion to the leaves and other parts,) 



b. thicknefs fromfome well-known fimilitude. 

 dire^lon a. ere<St, ftraight, rigid, climbing, twining, creeping^ 

 loofe, oblique, afcending. 

 declining^ incurved, nodding, 

 diffufed, procumbent, ftole-bearing. 



b. farmentous, rooting, creeping. 



c. knotted, flexuous, climbing. 

 twining: from the left^ from the right. 



figure a. columnar, femi-colu.mnar, comprelTM, piped, 

 two-edged, 3-10 angled, 

 ^cute-angled, obftufe-angled* 



b. 3. 



