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The fpecies, here fo completely defcribed and 

 figured, is thq Aljlromeria Pelegrina, Sp. PI. 461. 

 The virtues of this fpecies are not afcertained, 

 but the fenfible qualities of the root rank it with 

 the Sarfaparilla \ and it appears by Feuillee^^ ac- 

 count, that there is a third fpecies in CM/, which 

 the natives ufe as a fubftitute for the above plant ; 

 ^nd LiNN^us has hence given it the trivial name 

 pf Salfilla, 



115. Nectaria Florum. B, M. HalL 1762. 



Dulci dijlendunt ne5iare cellas, Virgil. Georg. iv. 

 164. Hence Linn^^us gave the term Ne5larium 

 to a particular gland or repofitory, which in moft 

 plants contains the honey. This part in flowers 

 had been but little noticed before Linn^us raifed 

 it to importance ; and, ip his Syftem, it affords an 

 excellent mark of diflindion, in divers genera and 

 fpecies. 



Our author premifes fome Ihort obfervations 

 relating to xh^ glands of plants in various clafTes, 

 which are rnoftly fituated on the leaves or petioles. 

 He then proceeds to the direct defign of his tra6b, 

 which is to point out the feveral kinds of Ne^aria 

 in flowers, and to fpecify the diff^erent fltuation of 

 this part in different claflfes, orders, or genera. It 

 is therefore an inflrudive paper to thofe who would 

 attain a more complete idea of this Angular, and 

 heretofore negleded part, the ufe of which, how- 

 ever, is as yet imperfedly afcertained. 



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