Botanical dialogues, between Hortensia and her four children, Charles, Harriet, Juliette and Henry / Designed for the use of schools. By a lady [i.e. Miss M.E. Jacson].
- Henry, Mary Jackson
- Date:
- 1797
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Botanical dialogues, between Hortensia and her four children, Charles, Harriet, Juliette and Henry / Designed for the use of schools. By a lady [i.e. Miss M.E. Jacson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![t 66] bringing them into univerfal ufc; even with- out thefe afliftants we hear thofe very people, who objed moft to the difficulty of them, fpeak without hefitation of convolvolus, ge- ranium, afparagus, campanula, and many other*names, which are all of them the Lin- nean ones. Now we are all agreed upon the utility of endeavouring to eftablifh the com- mon ufe of the botanical names, we will, if you pleafe, begin with the Clafles. A Clafs is the firft and higheft divifion of • every fyftem. It may be compared to a didionary, in which all the words having the fame initial letter are arrang claffic charader is conftituted from a Tingle eircumftance, as the words are arranged by a fingle letter; this one eircumftance muft be poflefled equally by every plant admitted into the Glafs, how different foever they may be in other refpeds* This fingle charader is arbitrary, and has been taken from various parts of the frudification by different authors;, feme have chofen the petals, others the fruit Linneus has made choice of the ftamens, and on their number and fituation has founded his claffes; he makes the excellence of the word may be compared claffic](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28762514_0132.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
