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This may ferve as a Specimen of our Author's 
great Induftry and Exadnefs ; which he adheres to 
throughout the whole Work, where a Plant has by 
any, whether antient or modern, medical Writer 
cr Hiflorian, been celebrated for medicinal Putpofes, 
or its Ufes in the Art of Dying. His Defcriptions 
are fo exact, that it is almort impoffible, that any 
Perfon, ever fo little converfant with Botany, fhould 
miftake one Plant for another. His Figures, of which 
there are 24 Tables, are finely engraved, and with 
great Accuracy, as appears from comparing them with 
their Defcriptions. His Method is very natural, and 
not difficult to comprehend when confidered $ though 
at firft View it feems more fo than Rays, Tournefort’s y 
or Boerhaaves : And indeed thdre have been already 
fo many Botanical Syftems, luch warm Gomroverfies 
among Authors, fo many bad Nahies, fuch great Con- 
fufion, that as often as there appears a new Syftem, it 
fends forth a Panic throughout the Botanical World ; 
as it adds to the Number of Names already too great, 
and tends to the Difcouragcment of thofe who are 
deftrous of being acquainted with Plants. But our 
Author’s Syftem being, ^as I faid : before, very natural, 
and as he gives but few new generical Names, and at 
the fame time when he ffives his own, mentions thofe 
of mod good Authors ; thefe Confideratiorls take off 
many Objedions, to which fome late Botanic W riters 
are liable. In the Work before us, the Author takes 
in only the Plants of Switzerland j but I believe his 
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Plan may be extended to a general Hiftory, which, it 
executed with the fame Accuracy as the prefent Work, 
cannot but be a mod valuable Performance. 
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