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Thus I have laid before the Reader, in a few Words, the Botanical 
Hirtory of the Guernfay Lilly, by which it is evident, that it has hither- 
to been but very imperfedly deferibed in any Language, and never 
in Englijh, nor by any Englijh Author in Latin j and at the fame 
time, I hope, that from the following Account of it, it will appear 
as evident, that no Plant in the whole flowery Race deferves more 
to be deferibed with Accuracy, Precifion, and Exadnefs, than this. 
And that mine may the better anfwer all thefe Conditions, I have 
digefted what my own Obfervations have furniflied me with, under 
the following Heads or Titles, viz. 
Nomen O Symnyma^ 
Name and Synonymous 
lltymologtay 
Etymology. ( Terms 
Locus Natalis j 
Place of Growth. 
RadiXy 
Root. 
Loliay 
Leaves. 
Caulis florigev^ 
Flower Stalk. 
Rerianihiicmy 
Cover Flower* 
"Pedmeuliy 
Foot Stalks. 
Vafculum fcminalej 
Seed Veflel. 
FloreSy 
Flowers. 
Retala florumy 
Flower Leaves. 
StamincLy 
Chives. 
AficeSy 
Pendants, or SommetSi 
StyluSy 
Stillet. 
JAelleus Liquor y 
Liquor like Honey* 
CuUuray 
Culture. 
EpiloguSy 
Conclufion. 
Eigurcey 
Figures* 
What the Reader is to exped befidcs, I have already acquainted 
him with in feveral Places of this Introduction. My Figures are all 
of them drawn from the Life, and the Defeription compiled from 
the moft accurate Examination I was capable of making during the 
fpace of one Seafon i what further remains, and efpecially a deli- 
neation of the Structure of the Flowers viewed through a Micro- 
fcope, muft be referr’d to the next. And in the mean time I moft ear- 
neftly beg of all Lovers of Flowers, and particularly the curious 
Gentlemen of the Ifland of Guernfay, that they would be pleafed to 
tranfmit to me, any further Obfervations that may be made concern- 
ing this beautiful Plant. Which Favour I (hall gratefully and pub- 
lickly acknowledge. 
I have only one Word more to add by way of Introduction, and 
it is this : Of all the numerous Tribe of Authors, Botanical Writers 
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