genusses

Some may perhaps query, Why did the Deity crowd the Surface of our Earth with ſuch a Number of different Sorts of Plants, many of whoſe Virtues we are entire Strangers to, if they have any; others we are uncertain of; others the fatal Experience of many has proved to be certainly noxious; and thoſe that we are beſt acquainted with, we cannot at all Times infallibly depend upon their ſalutiferous Effects; and, by late Diſcoveries from improved Microſcopes, we have Reaſon to ſuſpect that there are yet many Genuſſes and Species of minuter Vegetables ſtill undiſcovered?

1746, Thomas Short, Medicina Britannica: Or, a Treatise on Such Physical Plants, as Are Generally to Be Found in the Fields or Gardens in Great-Britain, London: printed for R. Manby and H. Shute Cox, page xxv

There are, it ſeems, in phyſics, diſcoverable by the ſignification of words, three univerſal principles or genuſſes of things, namely, ſpace, matter, and motion; which, as to their eſſences, if eſſence, nature, and quality differ in ought but form, are indefinable.

1768, Rowland Jones, Hieroglyfic:^([sic]) Or, a Grammatical Introduction to an Universal Hieroglyfic^([sic]) Language, London: John Hughs, page 7

The first work, which shall be written in Latin or French, I shall style Nova Genera and Species Plantarum Boreali-Americanarum, and it shall contain accurate descriptions and histories of all the new genusses and species of plants discovered in the United States of America, and published since Linnæus, as well as of those which, though mentioned by that great author, were by him badly described, but more particularly of all new, and undescribed genusses and species I have found, or which have been communicated to me during my travels through the United States: of such new genusses it will contain about fourteen, besides the ten of my annexed essay, on the fungus tribe, to wit: /[…]

1808, Samuel Latham Mitchill, Edward Miller, editors, The Medical Repository, volume V, New York: T. & J. Swords, page 350

Distribution species of genusses Cicindela Linn., Carabus Linn., Omphron^([sic]) Latr., Clivina Latr., Broscus Panz., Asaphidion Gozis and Trechus Clairv. at the investigated area.

1985, Yugoslav Union of Biological Sciences, Acta Biologica Iugoslavica, page 141