230 SAMUEL DALE. 
His learning received recognition during me lifetime from 
Linneus, whom he may possibly have seen ing his visit to 
England in 1736, in the dedication to him of ai genus Dalea. 
“This was founded in the ‘Ho by Cliffortianus’ (1787) for a South 
American papilionaceous plant, communicated to the Cliffort 
garden by Philip Miller, of ap In the ‘ Species Plantarum’ 
(1753) Linneus included this species in Van Royen’s genus 
ry of Harwich.’ This is 
‘ Jéchers Gelehrten etitgn (1787). Hoefer’s ‘ Nouvelle Biographie 
Générale’ (1856) gives the date of his birth erroneously as 1650, 
makes the further statement :—‘ On lui doit l’introduction en 
Europe de plusieurs végétaux Sunes, dont la lupart lui 
avaient été addressés de la Caroline par Catesby.” ‘This is very 
probably true. Perhaps the best see of him is that in Rose’s 
: aa arn pee vol. vi 
in on lat 
aa to hes Wohi eens of panne London. 
Decease make or erect eats conveniences in their Physick Garden 
at Chelsea in the County of Middlesex for the Reception thereof 
asp under such Regulations for the keeping and preserving them 
shall be agreed on and approved of by Sr. Hans Sloane Bart. 
i. D. President of the Royal Society London and my Executor 
cuyrncn named.” 
iis books ie bequeathed is a presentation copy of the 
second ‘edition of Ray’s Synopsis, to which are added two manu- 
script appendices sacmunritae some forty adceall, " ppevie, 
ma om Essex, in Dale’s Sees 
“Orchis Strateumatica Ger. 165. Naas 215. Ray Hist. U. 
1213. Orchis strateumatica J. B. major J. B. I. 758. Hist. Owon. 
