THE PREFACE. 



Chara^er in Botanical Learning , is isoell known to the 

 ΨηΜΐ€\. We carefully compared all my Specimens ', with 

 that large andwell-digeftedColleclion of dryed Plants, which 

 Dr. W. Sherard bequeathed to the Phyfick Garden of the 

 Univerfity ^Oxford 5 where all curious Perfons have an 

 eafy ^ccefs, through the great Affability and communica- 

 tive Temper of that worthy Gentleman, to whofe Care they 

 are entrufled. 



But left any Mi^akes fhould have been committed in the 

 Defer iptions of Thefe or of the marine Vegetables, the ^lAu- 

 thor has depofited the Originals in the Sherardian Colkclion, 

 Recourfe may be had likewife to the other Curiofities, taken 

 Notice of in //^i'/i'Obfervations {fuch as Foffils, Medals, 

 &c.) in the Library of Queen's College ; where they may 

 be confulted by the inquifitive Reader. 



The feveral Dijfertations that are occafionally inter- 

 fperfed throughout this Work will not , I pre fume , be 

 thought Digreffions, as they flow naturally from the Sub- 

 jeci. Neither need any apology be made for the Collection 

 of Papers, that are infer ted after the Ohicrvations ; firice 

 they are all of them either fo many Branches themf elves of 

 the Natural Htftory, or elfe ferve to illuftrate fome Part or 

 other of this Work. 



7Ί6ί• Excerpta particularly from antient j^uthors, will 

 certainly plead for themf elves, as they give the Reader, in 

 one View, all that was known to the Antients , of thofe 

 Parts of Bar bar y, which I have here undertaken to defcribe. 

 They are constantly appealed to, in the marginal Notes of the 



I The follo7v'i7ig Plants, having been overlooked in placing the Yhytographm alpbabet'icallj, are 

 to be inferted according to their rcfpedivc Numbers : viz. after n°. 78. infert 78". &c. 



78*. Borrago flo'ribus albis, foliis longis, folio fubtiis, incano. I. R. H.ayo. 

 anguftis. ^69". Periploca foliis anguftis, confertis, 



ijS". Clymenum pufillum, anguftifoliurti, floribus ex viridi flavefcendbus. Folia parva, 



vexillo rubro, alls flavefcentibus. rigida, obtufa, qiudam acutiora, ad genicuU 



164. Colocynthis pumila &c. Cucumis pltirima nafctintur. Flores pediculis brevibus 



Africanus echinatus minor•. Hyftrix vegeta- hsrcnt e petalis angufiis compofiti. 

 bilisvulgoHerm. Par. B.133. Defer. Cucumis 55^"• Sinapiftrum triphyllum breviore & 



echinatus, Colocynthidis folio Ibid. Ic. hirfutiori folio. Hac Species etiam , infiar 



22I^ Eruca fylveftris minor lutea, Burfs n. jy7 & yj8, vifcofa efl. 

 Paftoris folio, Italica, Bar. Ic. 1016. Defer. 621*. Virga aurea major, foliis glutinofis 



422. & graveolentibus. I. R. H. 414. Madramam 



313*. HelianthemumHifpanicum, Origani Arabum. vid.Oi/. ρ^2<ί(ί. 



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