PREFACE. 



WHen I began the ftudy of Botany, 

 I could not help lamenting the 

 want of an ample explanation of botani- 

 cal terms, arranged and digefted in fome 

 fuch manner as in the volume which I 

 herewith prefume to offer to the public, 

 as it was eafy to conceive that fuch an af- 

 fiftant would greatly facilitate the ftudy 

 in which I had engaged. I fought in vain 

 among the numerous tribe of our techni- 

 cal dictionaries for an explanation of a 

 language, which, in a great meafure, owes 

 its exiftence to Linnsus, the father of 

 modern Botany. That diftinguiihed na-* 

 turalift has, indeed, favoured us with a 

 Latin explanation of many of his terms in 

 his PhilofophiaBotanica ; but, fince the pu- 

 blication of that work, he has added a very 

 Gonfiderable number of words, ufed in a 

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