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are very nu[mer]ous, he gives us a catalogue, containing 

 both those observed by himself, and those described by 

 others, which he distinguishes into two kinds : 1. Erect, 

 2. Scandent. 3. He gives us an enumeration of such 

 plants as may be comprehended [under] the general name 

 of Ai'on, the characteristic whereof he makes to be a 

 Ba[tavian] plant, having a monopetalous cucullate flower, 

 whereof there are fo... sorts, called by the name of Aron, 

 Jrisarum, Dracontium, and Colocasia. Arisarum differs 

 from Aron in being less and slenderer in all its parts. 

 Colocasia from both, in having smooth, umbilicate leaves, 

 without any spots. 1. Pootstalk inserted not in the 

 end, but in the middle of the leaf, after the manner of 

 the Cotyledones ; flowers sometimes single, sometimes 

 more than one proceeding out of the same folliculate 

 footstalk, a style thicker and shorter than Aron, and 

 terminating in a slender point. Dracontium differs from 

 Aron and the rest, in having a leaf deeply laciniated or 

 divided into many jaggs. 



For his lionoui-ed friend, Dr. Hans Sloane, 



at his house at the corner of Southampton street, 

 towards Bloouisbiiry square, London. 



Museo di Plante rare della Sicilia, Malta, Corsica, 

 Italia, Piemonte e Germania, Sfc. di Don Paolo 

 Boccone, 8fc. 



The learned and ingenious author of this work, Signor 

 Paolo Boccone, a gentleman of Sicily, botanist to the 

 great Duke of Tuscany, and now a monk of the Cistercian 

 order, of the province of Sicily, having changed his 

 prsenomen into Sylvius, hath rendered himself well 

 known to the learned world by his writings published 

 many years since, viz. his ' Icones et Descriptiones 

 Variorum Plantarum Sicilise, Melitse, Gallise, and Itahse,' 

 printed at Oxford in the year 1674. And his letters 



