X PREFACE. 



fenfe peculiar to hirnfelf, which remain 

 hitherto unexplained. Part of the Phi- 

 lofophia Botanica has been tranflated into 

 Englifh, under the title of an Introdu5lion 

 to Botany •, but that tranflation is lefs 

 ufeful than it might have been, if the 

 tranflator had not given himfelf the trou- 

 ble to ar.glicife (if I rriay be allowed the 

 expreflion) the terms themfclves ; a very 

 ufelefs attempt, as there is hardly a fmgle 

 botanical book, of any repute, in the Eng- 

 lifh language ; Latin is the eftabliflied 

 language of Botany in all nations. 



There is perhaps no circumitance 

 .which v/ould be of greater advantage to 

 the fcience of Botany in particular, than 

 that of fixing an ablblute fignification to 

 all its terms : this is hardly to be expei!ted 

 in a firft attempt •, but there is a poflibi- 

 lity that fuch an attempt may become the 

 foundation of a more perfect fuperftruc- 



ture. 



