Excerpt from The Language of Botany: Being a Dictionary of the Terms Made Use of in That Science, Principally by Linneus; With Familiar Explanations, and an Attempt to Establish Significant English Terms; The Whole Interspersed With Critical Remarks Having been appointed by the unanimous voice of the Univerfity of Cambridge to the Profeflbr {hip of Botany; and being foon after nominated by Dr. Walker, the founder of the new garden, his firfi Lee'mrer;. I had the felicity of taking the lead in intreduci'ng the Linnean fyfiem and lan guage to fmy countrymen, by a courfe of public They were at that time both ew tirely new to the Univerfity, and very little known or attended to in other parts of 'the king dom, except at Edinburgh, by the laudable efforts of the late Dr. Hope. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.