oR EF F-A.¢ fF. 
actual tranflation of Dodonzus; and Parkinfon’s 
Paradifus terreftris little better than 4 compilation 
from other books. Miller’s diétionary is certainly 
a more original work than either of thefe; it is 
feldom, however, if ever, that the author has 
quoted either of thefe books as authority, without 
having been induced by fome additional reafon, to 
believe the plants alluded to were actually culti- 
‘vated here at the time ftated. 
~ Several Manufcripts preferved in the Sloanean 
Colle€tion at the Britifh Mufeum have been 
made ufe of in this part of the Work, particularly 
N° 3370, intitled, Horti Regii Hamptonienfis — 
exoticarum Plantarum Catalogus ; to which an- 
‘other hand-writing has added, by Dr. Gray. Ona 
blank page it in‘ this book is the following memo- 
randum: “This Catalogue I took fan one 
“ which the Intendant of the garden they were in — 
“* at Hampton-Court, lent to me upon the place, 
= with liberty fufficient to infpect the Plants: they 
e were brought from Soefdyke, a houfe belonging 
to Mr. Bentink, afterwards Earl of Portland, 
about the year 16 90, and given by him to King 
© William.” 7 
_. The aiimeoatas Br. Myf. H. S. fignifies the 
Sloanean Hortus ficcus, kept in the Britith Mu- 
feum ; from whence much information, principally 
“Soncerning, the Plants cultivated by the Dude 
