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Excerpt from A Synopsis of British Plants, in Mr. Ray's Method: With Their Characters, Descriptions, Places of Growth, Time of Flowering, and Physical Virtues, According to the Most Accurate Observations, and the Best Modern Authors
T H E principal defign in pahli/tng this sxnopsis, is to infirutt heginners in the knowledge of Britifh Plants; efitecially ficch as are unacquainted with the Latin tongue For tho' there are joveral authors, in our own lan guage, on that fuhjeht, yet none of them have pur facd any regular method Some di/po/ing the plants in an alphahetical order; others according to their ficp pofed virtues, or in [uch an unintelligible manner, that a learner, having no certain rule to dirett him, mu/t undergo a very tedious jearch, hefore he can pofihly find out his unknown plant, if he he fo happy as to meet with it at all: But this di?ieulty will, in a great meafiere, he removed, hy the regular and familiar me thod which is followed in this synopfis. And that it.
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