382 FLORA OF OXFORDSHIRE. 
in an awkward manner, namely, by the times of flowering of the plants. 
It contains a list of plants, gathered within a circuit of about a mile and 
a-half German. In this small space, he found 980 species of Phanerogams, 
200 species of Mosses, of which 140 were new, and 160 Fungi, 90 being 
previously undescribed. It was his great knowledge of Cryptogamic 
Botany which induced Sherard to bring him to England. He resided 
with Sherard in London, and there undertook the task of editing a new 
edition of Ray’s Synopsis, the second edition of which, published in 1696, 
had become scarce. The third edition was published in 1724, but Dil- 
lenius’ name did not appear as the writer, it being considered that his 
foreign name would act prejudicially upon its sale. The new matter 
added by Dillenius is distinguished from the rest of the book, and besides 
his own discoveries, much assistance was rendered by Dr. Sherard and 
Richardson, Llwyd (the successor of Plot at the Ashmolean Museum) 
also furnishing a large number of records from Wales. In this edition 
40 new Fungi, 40 Algae, over 150 Musci, and about 220 Ferns, and 
Phanerogams are added ; the whole number of species described amount- 
ing to about 2200; these, judged by the Linnean Standard of species, 
would number about 1800, Although there are many mistakes in 
Synonymy, still the book was a decided advance upon previous editions, 
and it remained the text-book of British Botany till the appearance of 
Hudsows Flora Anglica. One peculiar error will be found under 
Anemone nemorosa. The additions to the Oxfordshire Flora in this 
edition are not numerous, Dillenius having been at that time but little 
inthe country. They are as follows:—Stellaria palustris, on the authority of 
William Sherard, Linaria repens, recorded by James Sherard and William 
Dandridge, a rayed variety of Centaurea nigra and @nanthe fluviatilis. 
_ On the death of William Sherard, Dillenius was appointed Professor of 
Botany at Oxford, and thus at last reached ‘the completion of his hopes, 
and the field of all that gratification for which his tastes and pursuits, 
prompted him to wish, and qualified him to enjoy. Add to this that he 
was placed in the society of the learned, in the completest sense of the 
word, and at the fountain of every information which the stores of 
ancient and modern erudition could display to an inquisitive mind.’ 
In 1726 he accompanied Brewer for a two months’ tour through the 
west of England to Wales. An account of this journey is given in a 
letter to Dr. Richardson, No. 100 of The Richardson Correspondence. 
They first went to the Mendips, and Cheddar, gathering Meconopsis 
cambrica, Saxifraga hypnoides, etc. On ‘Brent Downs’ (Brean Down) 
they found the Helianthemum polifolium, and an unknown grass Spica 
sparti, foliis reflexis angustis glaucis striatis, radice crassa et fungosa, 
which is a peculiar form of Festuca, probably trachyphylla Hack. They 
discovered also Silene maritima and Trinia. They then travelled west 
through Gloucestershire, Worcestershire, and Salop, gathering Campanula 
patula at Elberry Hill wood (Abberley?) near Worcester and Juncus 
