16 INTRODUCTION. 
Thus far we fee the courfe of Nature’s Diftindions evident to 
reafon. Between thefe five, and the two following, there is the Diftinc- 
tion of a new tribe or family j though we have not encumbered the Stu- 
dent’s mind with it in this place, becaufe the objeds which come un- 
der it are few. The other Cups are all compofed of Films, but 
thofe of this and the fucceeding Order are of Leaves. That this 
Tribe fhould begin with a Cup of one Leaf, is moft natural ; and it 
would feem alfo natural that it fhould afcend by two- leav’d, three- 
leav’d, and by four-leav’d Cups, to the Order which Hands next in 
our account, and which has five Leaves ; but this is a refearch for far- 
ther time: Its place will not come properly, till we have proceeded to 
thefe Plants in a natural method. There is much of the world yet to be 
fearched ; and there is much time for it. I have reafons to conjedure 
that the Plants here fuppofed to exift, may be found far north ; that 
trad of land will be now better fearched, than has been heretofore ; 
and gratitude demands this publick teftimony, that it is to the fa- 
vour of the Hudfon’s Bay Company alone, I owe the means of this new 
enquiry. 
HERBS, 
