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GENERA and SPECIES PLANTARUM, we are informed a 

 new edition with variety of improvements, is at this time preparing 

 abroad, and will mortly be made public; which will occafion us at 

 preient to poftpone a tranflation of them. 



In regard to our prefent work, an ingenious correfpondent has ac- 

 quainted us, that it is thought we have been too fparing in the ufe of 

 enghfh generic names, and efpeciallv to plants which are natives of 

 our ifland ; and has mention'd fome which were omitted from inatten- 

 tion, as Plantain, Woodroof, Pearlwort, Pimpernel, after Plantar, 

 Aiperula, Sagina, Anagallis. Thefe with fome others {hall be added 

 in a future edition of the work ; but as the Linnean names are daily 

 more and more introduced into common ufe 5 we wifh'd not to bur- 

 then the memory of the young Botaniit with names, which are already 

 nearly obfolete, as Bear's Breech for Acanthus, Flower de luce for 

 Ins, and the like : nor to confound him with fuch compound engliih 

 names, as would feem to refer the plant to fome other genus, as Dead- 

 nettle, Cow-wheat, Cat-mint, Ground-ivy, Black-Horehound, Field- 

 baiil , for Lamium, Melampyrum, Nepeta, Glechoma, Ballota, Cli- 

 nopodium, and very many others. A catalogue however of englifli 

 and fcotch names referring them to the Linnean claffes, is placed at 

 the end of the work. 



It was omitted to be mention'd in the preface, that Linneus has 

 not only ufed diminutives and detraaives from pofitive adjectives, as 

 denticulatus, fine-tooth 'd 5 fubdentatus, fomewhat tooth V; but has intro- 

 duced a fourth degree of comparifon by prefixing fub to fuperlative 

 adjectives; which our englifh article very moll accurately expreffes, 

 as juhntegerrimus very intire ; Integerrwius moft intire. In a few of 

 the firft pages of the work however very has been ufed by inattention 

 for the fuperlative degree. 



It has been wifh'd by an ingenious correfpondent, that a figure of 

 reference to the plates had been put in the index of botanical terms at 

 the beginning of the book : this the Reader is requefted to do with his 

 pen, as in p. XLIV. after orbicular 157, to add f. 1. after oral 1 cq, 

 to add f, 4. &c, v 



We were alfo inform'd, that an alphabetical arrangement of the 

 latin terms of Linneus with their translations, would be acceptable to 

 young botanifts ; as it might facilitate their acquaintance with theyet- 

 untranfiated works, of that great naturalift; this we have accordingly 

 executed- ° ' 



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