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It is defirable that all young ftudents in 
botany fliould make a point of ufing the 
terms and language of the fcience; and herein 
will be found the fuperior excellence of the 
Lichfield tranflation, that, in acquiring the 
language of that work, we become able to 
underftand any defcriptions of plants which 
may occur to us in latin; whereas, when 
there is an attempt made to form the terms 
more after the englifh language, they cannot 
be made ufe of except in converfation with 
an, englifh botanift : the fame objections oc- 
cur againft forming either the generic or trivial 
names in our own tongue in preference to a 
literal tranflation of thofe given by Linneus. 
One or two inftances will Ihow the inconve- 
nience of fuch a practice. Out of fix fpecies 
of plantago defcribed in the Botanical Ar- 
rangement of Britifh Plants, there are only 
two which have their trivial names trans- 
lated; fo that a ftudent, who formed his 
language from that work, would find it al- 
moft equally difficult to underftand a Lin- 
nean botanift, when he fpoke of plantago 
media (middle), or plantago lanceolata (lanc- 
ed), one being termed hoary, and the other 
rib-wort, as if hp was ignorant of the fcience. 
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