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altogether with the fame fuccefs, by his not obierving ; 
that & if the bafe and one of the fides be completed to 
femicircles, the fecond of the two proportions m the 
fupplemental triangle thence formed leads directly to 
the fir ft in the original triangle. 
And to conclude, if two fides, and the angle op- 
pofite to one of them, or two angles with the fide 
oppofite to one, were given ; when the other oppofite 
part is found from the proportion between the fines 
of parts oppofite, the remaining angle, or fide, may 
be found by either of the two proportions foregoing. 
LXXXII. An Account of the Plants Halelia 
and Gardenia : In a Letter from John 
Ellis, Ejq\ F. R. S. to Philip Carteret 
Webb, Efq\ F.R.S. 
Dear Sir, 
Read Nov. 2o,'\/'OU muft have obferved,. that as 
i 7 6°. the fpi r i t pf planting has increafed 
in this kingdom, the ftudy of botany has become 
more fafhionable ; the works of the celebiated Lin- 
nsus, heretofore looked on as capricious and ftrange, 
are now in the hands of every man, who wifhes to 
ftudy the order of nature. . 
The great variety of plants, which you have in- 
troduced into your garden from North America, as 
well as from many other parts of the world, mult 
give you double pleafure, when you view them ranged 
m proper order, and judicioufly named. 
