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ADVERTISEMENT. 



TH E Editors are happy at the conclufion of their labour to ac- 

 quaint the public, that they are afiured by many correfpondents, 

 that the language of their tranflation has met with the approbation of 

 the ingenious ; and to add, that the fale of it has equal'd their Ex- 

 pectations. 



The celebrated Author of the SEXUAL BOTANY has deliver'd 

 his fyftem in three feparate publications ; the GENERA PLAN- 

 TARUM, the SPECIES PLANTARUM, and the SYSTEMA 

 VEGETABILIUM. In the firft of thefe are defcribed the natural 

 character, or all the parts of the fructification of every Genus of plants. 

 In the fecond the Species of each Genus are enumerated, and diftin- 

 guilhed from each other by their fpecific defcriptions, and their trivial 

 names ; to which are added the Synonymies of the older authors, with 

 references to their works ; the native places of the plants, their dis- 

 tinctions into fhrubs, trees, and herbs ; into annuals, biennials, and 

 perennials ; with more diffufe and particular defcriptions of fuch as are 

 more rare. The third or SYSTEM OF VEGETABLES defcribes 

 only the ejjential characters of eaeh Genus ; or fo much of the parts of 

 fructification only, as diftinguifh it from every other Genus ; and 

 then enumerates and defcribes the fpecies under each Genus ; giving 

 only their trivial names 2.T16. fpecific diftinctions. 



This laft work therefore, the SYSTEM OF VEGETABLES, 

 may be term'd an abftract of the other two ; and is perhaps one of the 

 moft wonderful and fuccefsful efforts of human ingenuity. In many 

 fingle pages of it twenty plants are accurately difcriminated from every 

 other known plant ! and more than ten thoufand plants are defcribed 

 in one octavo volume ! fo artful is the arrangement, and fo laconic the 

 ftyle of this celebrated fyftem ! and yet from the comparative fhortnefs 

 of the words of our language, we have been enabled to render it ftill 



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