LETTER XXIX. 
JUNE.' 
Nuncfrondentfyfoa y nunc formofijfimus annus. 
TO fpeak in the language of a fportf- 
man, this month will afford us am- 
ple diverfion. We fhall find no lack of 
Game. Herbarizing may indeed, with fome 
propriety, be compared with the amufements 
of the chafe. A botanift is continually hunt- 
ing; but with this very great advantage, 
that his fport is unmixed with cruelty. Hap- 
pily the objecls of his purfuit have no feel- 
ing : they are unconfcious of their exiftence, 
to deprive them of it, therefore, cannot be 
attended with remorfe. 
Pull that yellow flower with two heads. 
Each head, you perceive, is a clufter of dif- 
tin6t florets of what is called a papilonace- 
ous fhape. You conclude, therefore, that 
we muft look for it in the Clafs Diadelpbia. 
Indeed this butterfly-appearance of the 
flower is a much more obvious and invaria- 
ble criterion of the Clafs, than the Jlamina 
being united in two fets, or brotherhoods 
as the title implies-, but Linnseus's fyftem 
would 
