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New Mode of numbering Plants. 



in the snow. The surface of the park being very steep and un- 

 dulated, very few of the pins could be seen at once, which ren- 

 dered the eye, unassisted by measurement, a very unsafe guide. 



The above system being perfectly original, and not to be found 

 in any book of geometry that I have been able to consult, I 

 hesitate not to say, that they are valuable to the delineator of 

 sweeps and circles ; and should any of the readers of this paper 

 say that these articles are not original, I shall be very much 

 obliged if they will favour me with the name of the work where 

 they are to be found. 



OakJiill Gardens^ near Barnet, July 18. 1835. 



Art. V. Notice of a neto Mode of numbering Plants, the Invention 

 of Mr. William Morris. Communicated by Mr. Morris. 



I- SEND you my mode of naming and numbering plants, which, 

 from the form (exemplified inj'^-. 77. a) being so easily retained 

 in the memory, I consider preferable to Seton's. 













1 





2 



3 





4 





5 



6 





7 





8 



9 





M 77. 



Mark used for 0. 



|r\ No.tch used for separation. 



In numbering on this plan, for 1, 2, 3, I cut as in^^. 77. b. 

 As an example, take species 341, variety 2. {Jig. 78.) 



78 



This plan has not been communicated to any person besides 

 yourself. 



HenstridgCy Somersetshire^ May 7. 1835 



