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moft beautiful imagery, and fuch as would 
add peculiar grace, and the moft inftrudlive 
power to his mufe. 
And, although the talent of the poet 
hath not often been united to that of the 
really fcientific botanift, there are not want- 
ing inftances of this union. I might men- 
tion, lince the difcovery of the fexes of 
plants, the ode, dedicated to Camerarius, 
and printed in his Epi/iola de Sexu Pian-- 
tarum of which, a tranflation by Dr. 
Mart YN, when a young man, may be feen 
in Blair's Botanick Effays." Profeflbr 
Van RoYEN, in 1732, publilhed an elegant 
poem " De Plant arum Amoribus^ et Connu^ 
biisJ* And Cuno, an ingenious merchant, 
of Amjlerdam^ in a volume of 256 pages, 
defcribed, in 1750, the plants of his own 
garden in verfe j for which he received the 
laurel from Linn^us, by a new genus in- 
fcribed to his name. 
Whilft I am now writing, I have the 
pleafure of congratulating all thofe, whofe 
love of poetry is aided by a tafte for botani- 
cal fcience, on a moft elegant production in 
our 
