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tains, cultivated and barren fields, woods, rocks^ 

 Sec. afford each their peculiar plants; and where- 

 ever any are collected, the particular foil and 

 fituation mould be remarked. Sometimes it may- 

 prove inconvenient to convey the plants which 

 may be difcovered, when it would not be fo 

 to fend them dried, in the form of a hortus- 

 ficcus. To do this in the bell manner, and to 

 make their ftalks, leaves, Sec. lie flat and fmooth, 

 " The plants mould be gathered in a dry day, 

 " after the fun hath exhaled the dew ; taking 

 <s particular care to collect them in that ftate 

 <c wherein the generic and fpecific characters are 

 " molt confpicuous ; the fpecimens mould be 

 rc fuffered to lie on a table until they become lim- 

 <f ber, and then they mould be laid upon a pafte- 

 cc board, as much as poffible in their natural 

 <f form, but at the fame time with a particular 

 if view to their generic and fpecific characters : 

 <c for this purpofe, it will be advifeable to fepa- 

 u rate one of the flowers, and to difplay the ge- 

 €< neric character: if the fpecific character de- 

 <f pends upon the flower, or upon the root, a 

 " particular difplay of that will be likewife ne- 

 <f ceffary. When the plant is thus difpofedupon 

 " the pafteboard, cover it with eight or ten layers 

 " of fpongy paper, and put it into the prefs (f). 



(fj t( The prefs may be prepared by the following directions. 

 " Take two planks of a wood not liable to warp, two inches 

 ** thick, eighteen inches long, and twelve inches broad. Get 

 " four male and four female fcrews, fuch as are commonly ufed 

 * for fccuring fafh windows. Let the four female fcrews be let 



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