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■violet heart-form, rofemary (rofmarlnus offi- 
cinalis) and crocus, linear; or every where 
of an equal breadth. When he has well 
ftudied the fimple forms he muft then en- 
deavour to undeirftand thofe which are com- 
pounded from them ; and, by drawing, 
compound the forms himfelf, till they become 
familiar to him. Pulmonaria officinalis, com- 
monly called Jerufalem cowflip, has it's radical* 
or root leaves, of the form betwixt egg and 
heart; in expreffing wdiich, and the reft of 
the compound forms, the Lichfield tranfla- 
tors have moft happily imitated the concife- 
nefs of their author ; and in their language 
you w T ill find the terms, egg-hearted, heart- 
lanced, ufed inftead of between egg and 
heart-fhape, heart and lance-fhape, and fo of 
them all. The term arrowed is ufed for 
arrow-fhape ; lyred for lyre-fhape ; twoed, or 
threed, for growing two together, or three 
together: indeed, inftances occur fo fre- 
quently of the agreeable concifenefs, with 
which the language of the tranflated Syftem 
of Vegetable^ is formed, that it would be diffi- 
cult to enumerate them all : it is a work of 
the higheft value to an englifh botanift. An 
outline of the forms which may be found in 
leaves, 
