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CHAP. VI. 

 Of Tlants. 



NEXT Inanimate things, I proceed to fuch as have Life \ 

 amongft which , firft of thofe that hold the loweft 

 place, that exercife the moft univerfal, and therefore in- 

 ferior Faculties, fuch as Herbs, Shrubs, Trees, all which are con- 

 tained under the general name of Plants : But of thefe I intend 

 notacompleat Catalogue (that being a fubjeft of it felf large e- 

 nough for a Volume) but only a (bort account, 



i. Of the Indigenous Plants of the County, which yet either 



i . Are not defcribed by any Author that we know 

 of, or 



2. Have not been noted by the ingenious Mr. flay, 

 in his excellent Catalogue, to be of Englifb na- 

 tural growth ; or 



3. Have indeed been noted, which yet remaining 

 dubious, either as to the certainty of their de- 

 fcription, or ff>ecifical difference, are cleared in this 

 County. 



2. Of the extraordinary accidents of well known Plants. 



3. Of the unufual Plants now cultivated in the Fields, un- 

 der which head fomwhat of the Husbandry of the 

 Country. 



according to which method I fhall treat of all the three foremen" 

 tioned Species of Plants ; viz^ Herbs, Shrubs, Trees, fo far forth 

 as each of them will come up to it. And firft, of thofe (tiled 

 herbaceous Plants. 



1. By which I underftand all and only thofe that are made up 

 of zfuccuknt and carnous fubftance, that never in any part will 

 become lignous^ (or hardly any of them retain it all winter) as 

 Shrubs and Trees do : of which thofe that are indigenous, and not 

 defcribed by any Author that we know of, are thefe that follow. 



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