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ftalk, and particularly the leaf, foliation, ramifica- 

 tion, or fome other abiding diilinftion. 



Befides thefe fpecific names or defcriptions, Lm- 

 ^j^ijs has invented, and, in all his works, after 

 the firft edition of the Species Plantarum in 1753, 

 has applied what he calls Trivial names to each 

 plant, confifting of a fingle adjunfl to thegenerical 

 name, expreffive, if poffible, of fome effential dif- 

 tin6lion of the fpecies : as for inftance, integrifo- 

 Iia<i laciniata^ ere£fa^ rep ens ^ aquatic montana^ &c. : 

 fometimes, of the name of the inventor and 

 where, from the laws of his Fundamenta Botanica^ 

 he has been obliged to change the generi'cal name 

 of a plant well known before, and efpecially if it 

 was an officinal one, he frequently retains the old 

 generical name as his trivial epithet. Thus as the 

 Penny-royal, or Fulegium^ really belongs to the 

 Mentha genus, according to his characlers, he 

 therefore calls it Mentha Fulegium. The Horfe- 

 radifh, known by the old name Armoracia^ as it 

 agrees with the Cochkaria genus, he calls Cochle- 

 aria Armor acia. 



The Varieties of plants, which, for want of 

 fixing true fpecific charadersj had almotl: increafed 

 the number of plants double what Linn^us thinks 

 they really are, in this work, as in the Species, are 

 totally excluded. Cur author has inde€d, in the 

 opinion of many of his contemporary botanifts, 

 carried this matter too far, in difallowing the name 

 of fpecies to many plants that are thought to have 

 fufficiently permanent diftindions. 



To conclude, the fpace of tim.e elapfed fince the 

 publication of the Genera and Species Plantarum^ to- 



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