ttom 
The number of genera is taken from the 8th edition of the 
i Uen. Plantarum printed in 1with some others. 
The number of species is taken from the Sy sterna Vegetabilium j 
14th edition^ printed in 1784, with some others since discovered. 
The distinctions of the genera in the several orders are taken 
from the synopsis to each class, in the Same publication. 
The growth} and places where principally native , are taken 
from Aiton; and other botanists. 
The number of species indigenous to the British Isles, are taken 
from Broughton’s Enchiridion Botanicum. 
s In the column under growth*; t, Stands for tree; s, for shrub; 
and hji for herb. 
Vegetables, Saith Linnceus, hath life without voluntary motion; 
his climax runs thus, lapides crescunt; vegetabilia crescimt et 
viviint; animdlia crescunt , vivunt, et sentiunt; and this was the 
doctrine of other authors before Linnaeus; it may be right in a 
general sense, but if we accurately examine the connecting links 
of the three kingdoms, we shall find ourselves staggered in the 
definition. His System of Plants makes no difference between trees, 
shrubs, and herbs, yet the distinction is of great antiquity with 
other writers: The difference between trees and herbs is-very- 
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