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and habit of a plant of tWis clafs, intenr^ed to con- 

 vey a full explanation of the terms, referring to ■ wo 

 explanatory plates, on which is engraven a flower 

 of each genus. 



Various have been the methods invented to clafs 

 this tribe j our author here gives them a ntw dif- 

 pofition, entirely independent on the fexual fyftem, 

 eftabliftied on the fgure and number of the valves 

 compofing the Glume or Calix ; and thofe of the 

 flower^ clafled under two general heads, as they 

 grow either in the form of Spikes or Panicles, 



In all natural clajfes the diftindlions of the genera 

 depend on minute differences, which require very 

 nice difcriminations ; the author therefore proceeds 

 to point thefe out in feveral inftances of this tribe : 

 he has alfo added the exceptions that arife under the 

 feveral genera in various fpecies, an imperfcdion 

 that attends all fyftems. He concludes with a full 

 explanation of his tables, which are better adapted 

 to convey to a learner a true idea of this clafs, 

 than any that we are yet acquainted with ; fince 

 Scbreber's tables are not adapted to common ufe in 

 England. 



135. Varietas Ciborum. a, F. JVedenberg, I'jSj. 



The immenfe variety in food, which cuftom, 

 necelFity, and luxury have introduced, is here in 

 a concife way difplayed : the fimplicity of fome 

 nations, whether arifing from penury or from cli- 

 mate, the Apician luxury of others, and the vari- 

 ous effeds of the culinary art, are alfo briefly 

 pointed out ; then follows a divifion of aliments 

 into clades, thus, 



A a I. Watery, 



