PREFACE. 
low, as not to deter those in less affluent circum¬ 
stances from entering into the paths of Nature ; 
and therefore the plates of the several parts 
of the fructification, the forms of the leaves, 
See. (which may be seen in every larger publi¬ 
cation of Botany) are omitted; as are also the 
several tables of scientific terms, which, as far 
as is necessary, will be easily acquired in a fur¬ 
ther progress.* 
By these means it is hoped to encourage a 
more extensive inquiry into the science ; for 
nothing is more pleasing and instructive to the 
human mind than to contemplate the harmony 
of Creation, as nothing more strongly evinces 
the existence of a Supreme Cause. 
It is impossible for the most laboured ha¬ 
rangues, or the most subtle reasoning, to make 
* Linnaeus hath no good plates to explain his system, but jf 
thought necessary, plates may be seen in many of the English publi¬ 
cations on Botany, and especially in Rose’s Elements of Botany, 
which contain the principal parts of the Philosopkia Botanica of Lin- 
nffius; and very proper to be perused, after a general idea of the 
system is obtained. 
