Having fulfilled the invidious task, which truth has required of us, let us turn .to the more pleasing one of pointing out some of the great practical advantages of the labouri of Jusdieu. We do this with the more readiness, because we conceive that his real merits are better understood in England than any where else. The writer of this cannot disclaim tAt honour of being the first who announced to his countrymen the per formance of his illustrious friend and correspondent,' as one of the most learned books ever published. He humbly conceives that few persons, in any country, have studied the work more, or applied it so much to practice. If he has been fortunate in establishing genera, which have not been controverted, he allows his obligations to Jussicu, as much as to Linnaeus. The treasures of neither lie on the surface, nor are they to be appreciated by a superficial observer. The foolish contentions of party can neither exalt nor in validate the reputation of such men ; nor is it the counting of stamens and pistils, nor the enunciation of the names of natural orders, implying ideas which do not always exist in the mind of the speaker, that can entitle a pedant or coxcomb to rank as the pupil of either.
We confess ourselves somewhat partial fo the Lin mean notion, of conceiving the idea of a natural order in the mind, rather than to the Jussieuan attempt at very precise technical limitation of its characters. If we contemplate the generality of Jussieu's orders in this light, we shall be struck with.his profound talents for combination, as well as discrimination; and as we peruse his critical remarks, subjoined to several of these orders, we shall profit more by his queries and difficulties, than by those definitions, at the bead of each order, which are, too often, so clogged with ex ceptions, as to bewilder rather than instruct a student, however intelligible they may be to an adept.
The uninformed reader may, possibly, be surprised to see how great a conformity there is between meal of the Natural Orders of Linnaeus and those of Jus-' sieu. This will appear by a cursory view of the lat.' ter, which, after the detail we have given of the for mer, will more elucidate the subject thin any other explanation that our limits will allow. We shall take the orders of Jussieu in their regular series.