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An Account of it Boohc 
VII. IFlorci Noribergenfis, 8cc. being a. Catalogue of fuch 
Plants as not only grow Spontaneoufly about Nurem- 
berg, hut alfo of fuch Exoticks as the Phyfick Garden 
efihat City hath lately raifed^with the Figures and De* 
fcriptions of many of the mojl rare^ Opera Joliannis 
Georgii Volckaraeri, M. D. Noriberg. 1 700. 4^i?. p. 
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'^T'^'^He Author dedicates this Book to Dr Veter Hotton 
and Dr Caffer Commelin^ two eminent Phyficians^ 
and very expert nerharifis^ the firft, Botanick Profeffor 
of the Leyden Phyfick Garden, the other^of Amfterdam^ 
having received feveral favours from them the laft year, 
when he was to vifit the curious Gardens in Holland. 
In his Preface to the Reader he fays we muft not 
wholly lay the CharaUeriflical diftinftion of Plants^ in 
the Seeds or Flowers 'alone^ but oftentimes on the whole 
Plant, and to prove it he gives you fome inftances of 
5 or 4 Plants whofe Flower or Seed do not wholly an- 
fwer the general Rule. He alfo advifes the Lovers of 
Botany to be very wary in the diftinftion of the Plants 
Gymnofperms from the Angiofperm£^ elpecially fuch 
whofe Flower produces but one Seed. The laft gene- 
rally are inclofed with a treble covering, whofe outer 
Coat may be taken away without detriment to the Seed, 
which you cannot without prejudice do to the firft or 
Gymnofperm£^ which have only two Skins : This he 
promifes to demonftrate very clearly in fome Tables he 
will fuddenly publith in relation to the affinity of 
Plants, which he will bring into fuch a method, thdt 
many unknown Families, as well as fingle Plants, fhall 
be hereby reduced into fuch a method, as will noceafily 
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