iio. In this additional volume a're' dercribed at 

 large 156 fubjedls of the animal kingdom, all be* 

 longing to the firft four clafles ; and all acquired 

 fince the publication of the firft part in 1754, 

 Throughout the whole Syjiemy Linnj&vs has 

 referred to thefe books for delcriptions at large to 

 all the exotics : and nothing could be more ac* 

 ceptable to the critical zoologift, than to fee the 

 plan of this volume perfeded through the whole 

 hiftory of animals. 



T O M. II. The Vegetable Kingdom. 



The fecond part of the Sypma Natur^^ relating 

 to vegetables, in all the editions prior to the 

 tenth, was very compendioufly exhibited ; the au- 

 thor havings after his Ckvis Claffium^ only given 

 the names of the genera^ with their e£ential or ab- 

 breviated charadlers, without touching at all on 

 fpecrfic diflinclions, which were referved for the 

 prefent enlarged edition of the Syftem, and for the 

 Species Plant arum, a work before fpoken of. 

 This volume contains upwards of 560 pages j and 

 in the twelfth edition of 1767, by the acceflion of 

 new materials, is enlarged to 731. It contains, in 

 a moft compendious manner, a view of the whole 

 vegetable kingdom, as far as the fubjefts thereof 

 had come under our author's own infpedlion, dif- 

 pofed according to that fyflem of which LiNNi^:i/s 

 had been the inventor, founded, as to the clafiical 

 part, upon the fexes of plants ; a fyftem now al- 

 moft univerfally received. It is in this branch 

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