INTRODUCTION. 



THE following Calendar was extradled chiefly 

 from Theophrallus's Hillory of plants, and 

 put together in the befl manner i was able from 

 imperfed materials. Any one who looks into the 

 original, will fee that accuracy ought not to be ex- 

 pected •, the manner of marking the times being 

 often very indeterminate. 



I am fenfible that objedlions may be made to 

 many parts of this Calendar, but i thought it not 

 worth while to give my reafons for what i have 

 done, and thereby load a piece of mere curiofity 

 with pompous quotations. 



It has always feemed extraordinary to me, that 

 when difciples of Linnasus have been fent into fo 

 many parts of the world, in order to make dif- 

 coveries in natural hiflory, viz. Afia, Penfylvania, 

 Lapland, u^gypt, Paleiline, Malabar, Surat, 

 China, Java, Spain, America, Gotland, Italy, 

 Apulia, Surinam, and St Euftatia, that Greece 

 fhould have been overlooked. It is true, Monfieur 

 Tournefort was lent into the Levant by Lewis the 

 Fourteenth to fearch for plants, and fpent fome 

 years there ; it is aifo as true, that he had all the 

 knowledge and zeal neceffary for fuch a commif- 

 fion ; but the country was too extenfive for one 

 man to examine thoroughiy in that fpace of time. 

 He rambled over mofc of the Greek iOands, Ar- 

 menia, and other parts of Afia ; and though he 

 enriched the royal gardens with many new planus, 

 yet feveral muft have efcaped him for w^ant of time, 

 or a proper feafon. 



It were to be wiflied, therefore, tliat fome per- 

 fons properly qualified, might be fent to Greece, 

 and be enjoyned to make Attica, particularly, 

 their place of refidence for a year at leaif. This 

 might furnilh a Flora and Fauna Attica^ that 

 Y would 



