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PART V. 
SCIENCE or BOTANY 
BRIEFLY EXPLAINED. | 
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To ufhier our young readers into this pleafing and 
inftructive fcience, we offer the following compen- 
dium of botanical illuftrations, to their attention, bée- 
fore they proceed to the ftudy of the flowers we have 
_in the following pages, fhortly defcribed. 
Every fcience, except botany, poffeffes a language 
peculiar to itfelt. Every perfon who has pretended 
to teach, or explain, the. nature of plants, has chofen 
terms to exprefs himfelf, according to his own cap- 
rice, or his particular ftile of obfervation. This ar- 
bitrary mode of treating botany, has Heong 
bewildered the ftudent ; and even, fometimes, dif- 
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NATURAL HISTORY: 
fuaded him from purfuing the fcience with that avid _ 
ity and pleafure'he would otherwife have done. Al- 
though the vocabulary of botany has been always 
fubject to this variation, it has never experienced 
more innovation ‘than of late years: But, notwith- 
-ftanding we lament this deficiency of ftability -in. bo- 
tanical language, we are happy to find that, fometimes, 
