SIR HANS SLOANE, 47 



rivers, soil, productions, ru*^ms, trade, and 

 diseases, and more particularly '.hose of Jamaica ; 

 then follows an account of his voyage in forty- 

 eight pages, and the remainder of the book, 

 occupying two hundred and sixty-four pages, is 

 taken up with an account of the plants, of which 

 he makes the following arrangement. 



CHAPTER 1. Of submarine plants. 



Under which head he includes Corals, &c, 



2. Of mushrooms, mosses, &c. 



3. Of ferns, or capillary plants. 



4. Of herbs with grassie leaves. 



5. Of herbs with less perfect or staminious 



flowers. 



6. Of herbs with monopetalous flowers. 



7. Of verticillated plants. 



8. Of herbs that are leguminous, or have a 



papilionaceous flower. 



9. Of herbs whose flowers are composed of 



two or three petala or leaves. 



10. Of herbs whose flowers are composed of 



four petala or leaves. 



11. Of Vasculiferous Herbs with pentapetalous 



flowers. 



12. Of herbs which are of the kindred of 



umbelliferous plants. 



13. Of plants that are rough leaved, called 



Asperifolia. 



14. Of herbs commonly accounted to have 



many naked seeds. 



15. Of herbs that are bacciferous or pomifcrous. 



