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{pe of the fmallneffe of their Size , andthe falfe placing of - 
them, thatthe Botanick is ascommonly puzaled as facisfied , 
and thereby difabled to give an ingenious account of them, 
4. As many things have fince their Deaths been obferved in 
Gardens and other places which they never difcourfed of ; fo 
there are-many vertues since difcovered in Plants which they 
neverfomuch asmentioned, 
5. AsThave minittred.a new method in a more compendi« 
ous Volume being alfo et plaine aad cafy, fo Ido deliver. 
my Reader from divers difficulties that till this prefent, he 
hath been perplexed with. | ; 
6, Ihave laboured to make my deferi ptions agreeable to the 
foyl which neither Gerard or Parkinfox did , that fo they may 
live in the Herbarifts efteeme, as they do intheir native and 
proper places, , 
7- Ihave not altogether walked alone in thefe my Tra- 
vailes but have gone along with Mr, Steevens Principall of 
Hart-Hall in Oxford, «Mr, Lyda'ls Mr. Brown , Mr, wit, Mr: 
Hanley, Mr, Beeflons Mr. Jobn Coffe, the Apothecary » and 
divers ocher my good Freinds , being very eminent Boranicks , 
in theUniverfity of Oxford,converfed with and received a Ivice 
fromthem , and had the approbation of divers other learn- 
ed Herbarifts now living, and if1 have failed ofthe beft ofour 
Englith men; Afr. Good-yeare, Dr. Bowle, Afr, Afbmole, the 
intelligence of our latetimes, Dr. How, their affiftance had 
not becn wanting comine endeavour, it my humble deferts 
could have raifed me tothe felicicy and Honour oftheir Ac- 
. 8. Ihave not only fer the Names of Plants and their 
Res but their rc ricticsalfo > their Affe&ts and Effects, 
ncreafe and Decreafe their Flourifhing and Fading ; theit 
- difting Varicties and feveral qualities, {c ch : 
‘the Reader thus much, that though no Art be able to. wets: 
Nature in herlikeneffe , yet if any Author can with his Pen 
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