388 A SKETCH OF THE PROGRESS OF 



Tournefort, which is a reflection upon Mr. Eay which I am sure I do not 

 design ; neither would I offend any of his living admirers ; but I find he 

 that would please everybody must never print.'* And the book never was 

 printed, doubtless for the very reason here hinted at, that the public esti- 

 mation of Eay's system and works was so great as to allow of no improve- 

 ment being made. And the same state of things is still more forcibly shown, 

 when, fifteen years after, Dillenius was compelled to suppress his own name 

 as editor of the third edition of the Synopsis, which still bears Kay's name 

 alone on the title. 



All hope of the publication of his Flora was destroyed by Buddie's death, 

 the exact date of which we have not been able to ascertain, but which 

 occurred between the years 1714 and 1716,t when he could not have much 

 passed middle age, if he had attained it. 



At the time of his decease his collections and MSS. were in Petiver's 

 hands. Buddie bequeathed them to Sir Hans Sloane, who obtained them 

 from Petiver with some difficulty, and the latter subsequently borrowed 

 them again of Sir Hans. It is but doing justice to Buddie's great merits to 

 remark that Petiver had the use of all his materials, and sometimes appro- 

 priated his observations. 



Buddie's labours are duly acknowledged by Dillenius in his preface to his 

 edition of the Synopsis, which appeared in 1724, and Sir Hans Sloane is 

 thanked for lending the Hortus Siccus : it is to be regretted that more use 

 was not made of it. This herbarium now forms vols. cxvi. to cxxv. of the 

 vSloane Herbarium. | Its value can be scarcely overrated as a means of 

 determining the plants of the Synopsis, and as the MS. flora contains 

 references to it throughout, all Buddie's plants can be determined with ease. 

 It is undoubtedly the most trustworthy and accurately-named herbarium of 

 the period which exists. 



Buddie was the first to notice many of the less attractive species about 

 town. Hampstead, Isleworth, and Hounslow were his chief hunting- 

 grounds. His name stands as the first recorder of twenty-five plants in this 

 flora ; amongst others, of Geranium rottmdifolium, Ulex nanus, Trifolium 

 onedium, T. filiforme, Lotus major, Epilobium parviflorum, Arctium minus, 

 Carduiis te?iuiflorus, Sonckus oleraceus, Veronica Anagallis, Mentha rotundi- 

 folia, M. piperita, M. hirsuta, M. scttiva, M. rubra, M. gentilis, M. arvensis, 

 Chenopodium album, C.ficifolium, Potamogeton pusillus, Eleocharis palustris, 

 Alopeciirusagrestis,Agrostis vidgaris, Equisetumpahistre, and Lastrea dilatata. 



Isaac Rand, an indefatigable London botanist, like Buddie, paid particular 

 attention to the inconspicuous plants about town. We know nothing more 

 of him than that he was an apothecary and curator of the gardens at 

 Chelsea from 1724 to 1743. Plukenet in 1700 {Mant. 112) calls him a 

 botanist of great promise, and Buddie frequently mentions him. Dillenius 

 also acknowledges his help in the preface of his edition to Eay's Synopsis. 



* Rich. Corresp. 103. 



t He was not living when the Concordia Graminum was published in that year. 



% V^ol. liv. also contains ' English Mosses and Grasses ' collected and named by Buddie. 



