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Excerpt from Memoir and Correspondence of the Late Sir James Edward Smith, M.D, Vol. 2 of 2 The Linnaean system of botany, the principles upon which it is founded, with its application to practice, have all been amply elucidated in the fourth volume of the Encyclopedia Britannica. The reader will there find a general view of this celebrated system, including the generic characters, as well as some of the specific differences, of most plants hitherto discovered, with their qualities and uses. The terminology of Linnmus is ex plained; his arguments for the existence of sexes in flowers are detailed; his ideas of' a natural method of classification, and of its utility in leading to a knowledge...
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Preface provides an account of pre-Linnaean floras of England.
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