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were daily difcovered in the old continent, 
and were pouring in from the new, the 
nomenclature of botany was in danger of 
being again overwhelmed, with that chaos 
in which Ccifpar Bauhine found it, when 
he reduced it into feme order, by his la- 
borious and incomparable Pinax. 
Syjlem enabled botanifts to refer new fpe- 
cies to genera already formed, and reftrained 
that licence before taken, of giving a new 
generical appellation to each new plant : 
for, although in the multitude of methods 
which followed this difcovery, plants of the 
' fame genus, in one fyflem, were frequently 
referable to a different genus in another; 
yet, with this inconvenience annexed, they 
were more readily inveftigated, than under 
the vague diftindlions of the older writers. 
The refloration of fyjiem^ was, in the 
words of LiNN^us, the beginning of the 
golden age of botany ; and the revival of it 
having taken place in 'England ^ prefently 
raifed up feveral learned men among us, who 
gave new life and vigour to the whole fci- 
cnce. The names of Sloane, Pluke- 
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