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^•^) poft tot obfervationes, demonftrationes, experlmenta Cl. Au- 

 iftorem vix negaturum fore credo. An forte de dign'tate hujiis de- 

 trahit, quod omnibus ha(^tenus notis vegetabilibus applicari poflit, fi 

 Filiees & Mufcos AJgasque exceperis? Id vpro prorfus non vide« 

 ^uid fibi velit illud Audoris vaticinium (p. XIII.) „ diem dcleturura 

 ,,efre commenta Pentandrias Digyniac, Didynamiae, rel. contra vero 

 permanfura nomina UmbelJiferarum , Ringentium &c.**. Con- 

 trarium auguratur, ut au<fIoritati opponam au^oritatem, lo. Hil- 

 I. IUS ^ssj, Nec rationem video , ciir vih'pcndat, quin indignetur 

 fcre, Umbellatas, Campanaceas, Alfinaceas (addo Contortas & Afpe- 

 rifolias ), ftaminum niunero convenire , quos ordines a fe invicem 

 longe natura repellat? (p. XV.). Numqiud forte Linnoeus dixit, 

 has ejusdem ordinisefTe, propterea quod ex primario fui fyftematis 

 principio convenirent? is qui toties declarat non dare fe velle metho- 

 dum naturalem '^^)? non magis profe<fIo id dixit qunm Commeli- 

 ham gramen ideo eire quod triandra fit *). Reliquis vero quae p. 33. 

 affert exemplis §. 12. jam obviam ivilTe mihi videpr, cui hoc unicum 

 addo qutid ipfe Cl. Audor vel invitus Linnaium hac in re excufet 

 quum p. XLI.dicat: „fi planta inveniretur 4. 10.20. ftaminibus^ fe- 

 ',,mina fub florc pentapetalo duo cnnjunda in umbella proferens, 

 „non clafle fed genere divcrfam fore'*. Cur ergo illagencra; 

 Polycarpon, Arenaria, Spergula ipfi quoquc non ftint peculiaria ge» 

 jiera? Tomo II. Gen. xoai. 



Sequen- 



iS?l Philof. bot. Linn. §. 8S. 



188) Sic enim ille Prsef. T. I. Veget. Syft. pag. 14. „ Linnaeus, too 

 grcat for praife, after having iinfeccctnuliy propofed his thotights 

 in England, piiblifhedin HoIIand that Syftem of Plants, which cha- 

 rafterizes the ClalTes acording to the filaments and ftylc, and take 

 into the general diftinflions all the flowers. „This fyjiem, the 

 „fiicccding 24. Ycars (annj 1759.) have more and more ejlabli. 

 nfhed; and if wemakeconjefture of its value, ri wii.l live (evem 



WHEN A NATVRAL METHOO SUALL BE FOUND ) SO LONC AS TH£RB 

 IS SCIEhCB''. 



189) v. fupra notam iio. 



*) 'ciijus auQor p. XXXIII. arguit ipfum. 



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