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made free with more ; but I find great fault with his taking no man- 
ner of notice of it himfelf. He has given us only the Species; and 
refers to LixNjT^us for the defcription of the Genera : how, therefore, 
is it pofiible to difcover where he has placed any of thefe Plants that 
do not agree to the charadter of their Clafs ? This is a great defedt ; 
but we mufi; not be too fevere : for except the diftribution of fome 
of the Clafies and Orders produced from his own obfervations, his 
fpecific charadters are generally LiNN.yEus’s and though he talks of 
having examined them, he has fervilely copied them with all their 
faults. Some of thefe, his mailer (by altering them) has fince acknow- 
ledged. He has taken, very properly, the charadlers of his great 
divifions from all parts of the Frudlification: his orders depend chiefly 
on the Flower. As this method was only intended for the Leyden 
Plants, numbers are wanting in it; fome of which would have much 
diftrefled his Syftem. Gmelin is encreafing this Syflem with the 
Plants of Siberia. 
Royen diflinguilhes Plants into Monocotyledones and Dicotyle- 
dones. 
Monocotyledones, his fir ft Clafs, contains the 
Palm.®, which, as I fald before, is in Linn^us’s methodus 
Calycina. I own I think it, if not natural, yet made up of many 
good and natural orders; which, however, he has fometimes difturbed. 
Lilli A makes the fecond ; this alfo is a good Clafs ; tho’ perhaps 
it would have been better without the laft order. 
Gramine>e, very pure. 
AmentacevE, as alfo this: tho’ 1 fliould fcruple to place here 
Xanthium, Ambrofia, and Parthenium : they differ too much in 
habit from the reft, notwithftanding their Amentum. Hitherto the 
Claffes have followed one another very properly, but I cannot fay fo 
of the 
Umbelli FER^E, thougli it is an excellent order. 
Composite, the Compound, well placed, and unexceptionable. 
Aggregat/e, are highly proper: not that I approve however of all 
the Plants ; as Dorftenia, &c. 
Tr icoccjE i this has no conne6lion with the laft. It is very well : 
but feveral of the Plants do not fuit the character. 
Incomplete; here are many Plants of the Apetalae well placed; 
others very improperly occafioned indeed by his mixing the Trees. 
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