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Of the umbelliferous plants^ fuch as gfow in Airji 

 places are aromatic, and confidered as fudorifics 

 and carminatives : thofe growitig in watery places^ 

 on the contrary, are moftly of a quality to be 

 juftly furpe6ted3 and not a few of them quite 

 noxious. Plants of the papilionaceous clafs are all 

 excellent food for cattle. The fyngeneJioUs^ com- 

 monly Miters, The coniferous clafs, all evergreens 

 and rejinous^ are confidered as diuretics. 



Ten explanatory plates are added to this vo-*^ 

 lume, on which are defcribed the different leaves, 

 and their fituations ©n the ftalk, £5fr< different 

 ftalks, roots, P.owers, ^c. The firft part of thefe 

 plates, relating to the leaves, had been given in- 

 trodudlory to t-he Hortus Cliffortianus. Some new 

 terms in botany, which have been invented fince 

 the publication of the Philofophia^ may be found 

 in a paper under the title of T ermini Botanici, in 

 the 6th volume of the Amt^nitates. 



In this work of Linn^us it is difBcult to de- 

 termine, whether we ought moil to admire the ge- 

 nius of its author in his inventive power, or that 

 exquifite fcientiiic arrangement which he has given 

 to the whole ; and whichj both together, conftitute 

 this a moft excellent performance. 



At the end of the volume we meet with feveral 

 curious fragments : fuch are, 



1. Diredlions to botanic pupils. 



2. The method of conftrudting an herharium, 



3. Method of condu(5ting botanical excurfions* 



4. Method of laying out a botanic garden. 



5. Plan for naturalifts in travelling and con* 



E ftru£ting 



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