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book in which a plant is noticed as a native of Cambridge- 

 shire. 



The ponderous and inconvenient character of the specific 

 names used by Ray and J. Martyn cannot fail to attract the 

 attention of those botanical students who may use this book, 

 and "will shew to them how much we are indebted to 

 Linnaeus for the introduction of the binomial nomenclature 

 now adopted in Botany and Zoology. This which seems 

 to us to be so simple and natural an arrangement will be 

 seen not to have occurred even to so eminent a man as 

 Ray, and ought to be regarded as perhaps the firmest sup- 

 port of the reputation of Linnaeus. His classification may 

 be given up ; but the use of his system of nomenclature 

 must continue. Let us therefore never forget what we 

 owe to the great Linnaeus. 



