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are extant, the drawings for which were made with 

 all poffible accuracy by the late Mr. Ehret, By 

 the munificence of Mr. Clifford^ many of the cele- 

 brated botanifts received a prefent of this book. 

 How rich this garden was in plants, the book will 

 teftify. They are arranged, as in all our author's 

 fucceeding works, in the fexual method ; the varie- 

 ties are reduced to their feveral fpecies, the natural 

 places of the plants are particularly noticed, many 

 new genera^ and fpecies under former genera, are 

 introduced, with their defcriptions at large, and 

 curious obfervations interfperfed throughout the 

 whole. And, what muft have been more efpeci- 

 ally acceptable to thofe who began to relifh our 

 author's fyftem, was, the farther exemplification 

 of his fpecific chara5lers^ which the vaft number of 

 plants included in this work necefiarily led to. 

 Add to this, that from the copious number of 

 fynonyms, it is almoft a pnax of every plant thereia * 

 mentioned j and on this account, as well as others, 

 will yet retain its value, though fuperfeded in a 

 great degree by the Species Plantarum. To the 

 curious and critical botanift alfo it is no fmali 

 fatisfadtion now, to fee in this volume, compared 

 with later works, the progrefs of the author's own 

 knowledge, manifeft by the removes and altera- 

 tions that better information enabled him to 

 make. In the dedication our author enumerates 

 thofe patrons who have cultivated botanical gar-f 

 dens fo greatly to the emolument of the fcience i 

 he gives a lift of the differ tian library, and an- 

 nexes two tables, with explanations of all the 

 Variety q£ leavesji according to his new method 



