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Show Bet De AST ca we To fpeak of your Lorpsutp as is the cuftom on thefe oce cafions, would appear with a new air; for to you, the lan- guage of dedications would betruth: yet though it were no more thanecchoing the univerfal voice, I know ’twould be un- pleafing; for all applaufe founds to a delicate ear like flattery. Though I fhall not crowd the page addrefled immediately to your Lorpsuip’s eye with praife ; or tranfcribe their wonder who fee greatnefs fo joined with affability, and knowledge fo united to politenefs; one thing I fhall fay, and ’tis with pride and pleafure I fhall {peak it, that in this age, unfavourable as it 1s to literature, the leaft attempt toward rendering know- ledge ufeful is not without its patron. Be-Re Ie Te P25 FS - ee When England {hall be able to produce a Linnatus, hewill not a want a CLIFFORD. weg ona Widk! I Though I can bythis addrefs add nothing to that oreat opinion the world juftly entertain of your LorpDsuip’s virtues, I am confciousthat { fhall, in publifhing it, do myfelf the highef t honour it is poflible I fhould obtain. Science can boaft no greater glory, than to receive the patronage ofVirtue. GUCOSESEHG LSESCSSSHSSSHSSSSOLS SASSSSSEGCERGeaagaa CLASS f Plants whofe flower confifis of suverat PeTats*, with NUMEROUS THREADS I have the honourto be, in the centre, and is followed by a clufter of NAKED SEEDS, With the greateft refpect, S$ HIS is a clafs diftinguifhed by natural and obvious charaéters; and is proper for the ftudent’s firlt confideration, becaufe the flowers and feeds are confpicuous, and the parts are few, large, and plain. Mr. Rayeftablifhed it as a clafs; and the regard he has fhewn to the order of nature, in keeping thefe plants together, is a proof that his method, tho’ plain and fimple, is in fome inftances, better founded than thofe built upon fmaller parts, and nicer diftinétions, : Nature has joined noplantsfo plainly together as thofe which conftitute this clafs : yet Morifon, Tournefort, and others, have diftributed them in various parts of their WOFIES 5 and ee has My LORD, Your Lorpsurr’s moft obedient, united the greater part of them with many other plants not properly ally d to oo _ er the denomination of polyandria; a clafs altogether artificial, having but a miftaken foundation in aThis author in the feventh fection includes, among what he calls polyandria polygynia, the crow foot, which bears its feeds naked, and the hellebore, which has them included in pods, Nature feparates thefe plants, tho” Linneus joins them. and moft humble fervant, $1 He Rend) Biiteoed Natives of BRITAIN. JOHN HILL i all thofe genera, of HIS8 feries includes _ . fpe: 6 thofe iti genera, after defcribing of the Britifh which'one or more fpecies are natives of The fecond comprehends thofe our country, cies which are natives here, add fuch as, for their ufe or beauty, have obtained a place in our gar- none naturaMy wild. of pais we have only : > dens. To prevent the feparation of thofe plants in form, tho’ divided ny natu i on ire has joined which : th, we fhall, > under each i place of growth, iin their we or error, But to prevent confufion 5 one . fhall there arrange the fpecies diftinétly under two the genera, diftributed as we f have here divifions, Bs ; : 2 native, and foreign, under two /eries. * The leaves which compofe a flower are called petals, NL B GENUS |