A SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF WILLIAM SHERARD. 137 
Batavee flores ; sive enumeratio stirpium horti gta See methodo 
naturee vestigiis insistente dispositarum et anno 1689 in lectionibus 
expositarum a Paulo Hermanno, nune ver o primum in lucem editaru 
opera Lotharii Zumeacn. Lu oduni-Batavorum, 1690. (Pritzel, 
n. 4894.) In the list of authorities quoted by the author, are two as 
- follows:—‘ Parad. Bat. Pauli Hermanni Paradisi Batavi Prodro- 
on. 
=e s Library was sold 11th March, — when the work is 
After the Asti a Tournefort, the secretary of the Academy, Fon- 
__ tenelle, wrote an account of his life, and spea aking of the works of the 
" : 9 8 
iés.” Eloge sur Tournefort, 
avoit vu g 
wae 1, p. 160. 1781.) oa following Lauthier, writes thus :— 
Suzrarpus [Gulielmus] Botanicorum Princeps yocatus Schola 
ogre &e. ‘*Samuelis Whartoni nomine editus, illi tribuitur. 
Vid. artonum.” (Bi ui p. 1 Warton [Samuel | 
vel potius Gulielmus $ , Schola potaien, &e. (Id., p. 211.) 
ive SAMUELIS 
637. 
pany Sir J ames Edvard a contributed the following in his 
-—‘‘ He is universally 
u 
no one ever heard of such a botanist as Wharton, and the preface in 
coat aay the objects and sn in oboe of one of the first rank, 
y not long remain in obscurity, the above initials 
aan med to mean William Sherard, to whom alone, inde 
or without a signature, that preface a belong.” 8. (ord ames 
det, ae 9 “oven in Rees’ Cyclopedia. London : 1819. l. xxxii. 
Il. Parapisvs Bataves, continens plus centum plantas affabre 
