108 RAY’S HERBARIUM. 
which have long been out of print, to transcribe the account which 
was then given :-— 
“The herbarium of J sae cape is still in existence. It was ripe ee 
by him to his friend Samuel Dale, a apothecary, at Braintree, who w 
about forty-five years old at ie time of Ray’s death (1705), and bere 
him till the year 1739, when he left his books and plants as a legacy to 
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the assistant, and in the end the successor to "Pet iver, as 
_ botanical byte bb to the Company, was officially connected wih the 
ardens fo re than twenty years before Dale’s he rbarium was deposited 
He was hen making an extensive hortus siccus, which at his 
Aocuenvins | em is a manuscript index, so in in Ray’s ing; 
it is entitled ‘ Horti Sicci Raiani Catalogus,’ and contain ns an der wo the 
fascicles as far as letter S, arranged alphabetiontty, 4 this manner 
* Cyclamen autumnale baer Folio, K. 5, 0.8, 8.6.’ “The importance 
of this collection in determining precisely what are Ray’s species cannot 
be over-estimated ; and with those of Dale and Rand, both of whom 
helped Dillenius in his edition of Ray’s ‘ Syn nopsis,’ added to the collections 
of Sloane, Petiver, Sherard, Buddle, Richards son, and others, already in 
a 
ritish Association, conmating of Dr. Gray, Prof. Babington, and the Rey. 
; uld, to no eh a oa report on ‘The nts of Ray’s 
Synopsis Stirpiwm’ as et ned by an examination of the original 
seers of Ray and other 
e Journal for 1670; pp. 82-4, Dr. Trimen gives a further 
ssscund of Ray’s Herbarium, in the course of which he corrects one 
or two details, ana supplies additional information. He says 
a ait 
“Tt consists of 20 books ya different aver each cote about 
30 sheets of thin rough.paper, on which the specimens are sewn. Th 
er 
nays Rete The collection has been badly used; many Mot the 
specimens have been cut out. Proba ly, some of the labels, too, are in 
Dale’s writing, which it is difficult alw ays to distinguish from Ray’s. 
— is no eens ae - me collection, the plants having probably 
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of the species are European. Switzerland, Italy and Acree 
are ‘bene fepeabeatid : there are a few from Belgi Holland and 
man 
gardens. Localities are vo generally given, but many specimens from 
the Jura and Sicily are very definit tely localized. There can Ke little 
