D E D I C A T I O .

Latin: Dedication

...our own [method], which was released to the light in the eighty-second year of the previous century 1682, and which was rejected and, as it were, hissed off the stage by so many leaders of Botany The study of plants, to thrust it once more upon students. But after recalling the methods of others for examination, diligently comparing them, and weighing them in a fair balance against our own, I judge that I have done this not without reason. Indeed, this system of ours seems more in harmony with Nature, as it suffers less from that vice of joining together unrelated things and separating those that are kindred. I am greatly confirmed in this opinion since I have you as a supporter—a man second to no other botanist, of the keenest judgment, and one who has yourself attempted and entered upon the various paths of Herbal Arrangement The systematic classification of plants in a collection. And for that reason, I offer it, purged of errors and enlarged,