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^TiiaHer districts. The plants of Great-Britain 

 have been either collected, or ably described, dur- 

 ing this period, by Dillenius, Alston, Miller, 

 Blackstone, Hudson, Lightfoot, Robson, Cur- 

 tis, Withering, Berkenhout, andSMiiH; those 

 of Ireland, by Threlkeld, Keogh, and Smith; 

 those of France, by Gouan, Gerard, Magnol, 

 Adanson, Bulliard, JussiEu, and by several late 

 botanists; those o( Szvitzerland, by Haller; of 

 Holland, by Commelin and Boerhaave; of Ger- 

 many, by Crantz and Jacquin; oi Italy, by Mi- 

 CHELi and Allioni; of Spain, by the Abbe Ca- 

 VENiLLEs; of i^z^i'i'z^'z, by Pallas; oi Denmark, With. 

 great splendour, by Oeder, Muller, and their 

 associates; of Lapland, by Linn.^us; of Siberia y 

 by Gmelin; o^ Egypt and Palestine, by Celsius, 

 Hasselquist, and others; of Amboyna, by Rum- 

 PHius; of Ceylon, by Burmann; of Coromandely 

 by Roxburgh; of lapan and the Cape of Good- 

 Hope, by KoEMPFER and Thunberg; of the Mau- 

 ritius, by Willemet; of Cochin China, by Lou- 

 REiRO; o{ New-Holland, by Smith; of the West- 

 India Islands, by Sloane, Browne, Houston, 

 Plumier, Jacquin, and Swartz; of particular 

 parts of North-America, by Bannister,^" Vernon, 

 Kreig,'" Catesby, Mitchell,-^ Garden, Gal- 



iv John Banister, an Englishman, who settled in Virginia toward 

 the latter end of the seventeenth century, and devoted himself to the in- 

 vestigation of the plants of that part of America. He not only collected 

 plants, but also described them, and himself drew the figures of the rare spe- 

 cies. He became a victim to his favourite pursuit. In one of his excursions 

 for collecting plants, he fell from the rocks and perished. His botanical 

 friends did honour to his memory, by calling a plant, of the decandrous 

 class, Banisteria. 



X About the beginning of the eighteenth century, William Vernon, 

 an Englishman, and David Kreig, a German physician, led by their ge- 

 fiius for botany, made a voyage to Jllaryla/id, where they resided for a con- 

 siderable time, and examined its vegetable productions. They returned to 

 Europe, after having collected an Herbarium of several hundred new and 

 vndcscribed plants. 



y Dr. John Mitchell, an Englishman, who was sent to Firjnia, in 

 J 741, for the purpose of investigating the botanical treasures of America. 



