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cularly thofe relating to his profeflion as an 

 apothecary, cannot fail to recommend him 

 to the favor of the public. To him i like- 

 wife owe the afcertaining of fome of the 

 grafles, one of which, viz. the fmall bent 

 grafs which i had in my colledlion, but 

 knew not where i found it, he difcovered 

 to be the gramen minimum anglo-bri- 

 tanum, mentioned in the indiculus plan- 

 tarum dubiarum at the end of Ray's 

 Synopfis. 



I muft not omit alfo on this occafion to 

 acknowledge my obligation to that excel- 

 lent botanift Dr. Watfon, for favoring me 

 with the perufal of his coUedion of graffeSj 

 which was of no fmall fervice to me. 



But to return to the tranflation 3 I fald 

 that i did not pretend to have avoided all 

 miftakes in relation to the names of thing?, 

 i will now extend this farther, and own my 

 fufpicions that i may have made fome in re- 

 lation to other particulars, but i hope they 

 are of fuch a kind only as may be looked on 

 with indulgence by the learned, efpecially 

 when they confider the great variety of fub- 

 4 jefts 



