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search, partly by the mentioned assistance, I shall have 

 got as much information and knowledge of the plants of 

 each country as I can (which will require some years), I 

 do design to put forth a complete P. B., which I hope to 

 bring into as narrow a compass as this book. First, I 

 shall give the names of all plants that are or shall then 

 be found growing in England in an alphabetical order, 

 together, with their synonyma, excepting such as are men- 

 tioned in this catalogue^ whose synonyma I shall omit, 

 setting down only one name, and referring for the rest to 

 ' Cat. Cant.' I shall also put a full Index Anglicolatinus 

 after the manner of '-that -in this catalogue : then I shall 

 put in -the counties, .with the several rare plants in them 

 marshalled alphabetically. Instead of putting the par- 

 ticular places to each plant in the first catalogue, I shall 

 only refer to this : as suppose at Sedum tridactylites 

 alpinum, after I have given the several synonyma, and 

 the English name; instead of adding the place, I will 

 say, vide Carnarvonshire, &c. My second design is to 

 make another catalogue, which I will call ' Horti Angliee/ 

 I intend to write to all the noted gardens, to procure a 

 catalogue of each ; Oxford garden and Tradescants I 

 have already. Then I shall out of my own garden, and 

 all these, make up one catalogue. Herein I shall give 

 the synonyma of each plant ; and those that are not in 

 my garden, I shall name in what places they are ; as 

 suppose Olea sativa, after I have put down his synonyma 

 and English name, I shall add Tradescants garden, and 

 so of the rest. Into this catalogue I shall not admit any 

 that grow wild in England, lest it swell too big. To this 

 also I shall add a complete Index Anglicolatinus. You 

 have my designs, and I desire your judgment of them. 

 I would not be nattered, I am not so fond of my own 

 conceits : if prudent men think they will be of no use to 

 the public, I am not so foolish to trouble myself and 

 friends to no end but to trouble others. I shall be very 

 glad, sir, to hear from you; and, as I have heretofore 

 received abundance of pleasure and contentment from 



