DILLENIUS. 
en there his degree of a ic. At | 
i rre re on him at Oxford in 
{pecies of Papilio. 
In 1719, he oie his sar ed Plantarum Jponte circa 
Giffam nafcentium, arranged according to their times of flowe 
ing, a method certa inly as little ae and a | oie 
as could well be contrived ordingly, acti: can be 
the ae a mé thod 'r ecom- 
ed by a ieee writer for finding out plants in certain 
and we believe it to be the sae infallible. 
dto fome copies of the work in que er 
who troubles himfelf to inweigate oo a aii difputes, 
in which the art of ma ate 0 e intricacies of 
nature, while - paflion ey pr ad ce eoider both the writer 
and the reader, will think with fir Roger de Coverley that 
oth fides,” and perhaps that it 
Dillenius himfelf fhewed 
fitent contempt which c 
malignity always feel their fevereft punt 
u 
palace vifited our author in Germany, and in 
1721 brought him to England. Here in 1724 Dilleniu 8 
publifhed bis valuable and popular edition of Send 8 ae 
illuftrated with 24 plates of his own, and with abundance 
remarks, additicnal plants, efpecially of oe aon 
kind, and additional places of growth for many of the rare 
= has ae gle obferved, Tranfaétions of the 
fpecies, 
e has, with commendable 
flicient grounds, either as {pecies or natives, 
and has inferted others, f{uppofed to be new, that exift under 
other denominations in the original work. The cas he 
has made among the fynonyms, not being always marked, 
e us on that head fiill to 
plants upon infu 
hic 
Ray had miftaken for H. villofum quintum of Clufius, villofum 
of Linnzus; a very different {pecies, fince obferved inl Scot- 
fician in the Univerfity of Gieffen, ne eae to, have 
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pa veral new genera are here rft cflablithed, ier: ray ohlar. 
The 
‘the author, and are probably very fen. though 
- pleafing a ag es to 
land. He added much to the sia but peas varieticg 
than fpecies, which may alfo be faid of the 3 but in 
moffes, lic marine Aaa and fungi, he ay cariched 
i as the ea guide of thofe w 
ens 
? 
- in i ent, where Dr. 
bh oufe 
in 
3 by his own hand, as 
with 324 plates, a en 
In thefe plates, 417 
were thofe of hie pice: pipes on 
{pecies of plants are delineated with great fidelity. The plates, 
though not beautiful as engravings, have an airof truth, and 
a degree of luminous P ecilion, which none but a botaniit can 
give. They contain almoit a le tag ne ie the 
genus Me fe as own. 
letter prefs abounds in ample 
ee praeee ‘rita and intelligent remarks, 
Some copies were coloured hy 
, as works 
of art, inferior to what we a-e accultom med to fee at prefent., 
Before the publication of the Hortus Elthamenfis, its author 
was fettled in the new botanical Fil fforfhip at Oxf 
founded by his learned an nifice 
Ss 
delivered in good language. 
man was the continuation of Baulin’s Pinax, upon which he 
w 
“had beftowed great labour and attention, and he left by will 
3000/, to endow the profefforfhip in queftion for the purpofe 
of Lp sara his {cheme, having dct built, adjoining to 
xford garden, a mofeum, tow he bequeathed his 
librar ary, herbarium, and manuferi ripte "He ftipulate a 
Dillenius mae be the firft profeffor, and limited the appoint- 
ment in fut o Doétors of Phyfic, graduates of Oxford, 
not in ho 
the London College of earns Dillenius {pent the 
remainder of his: life in the ftudy i 
{ynonymy. In 
ince the prevalence of the Linnzan fyitem of oop tale 
and nomenclature. All botanical works now {peak one lan- 
guage, and for the moft part wear one form and afpect, 
that a general index to them is,in a great meafure, fuperfluous. 
Tt is, indeed, much to be lamented that the Sherardia an and 
a 
it probably would prove 
botanical bao ge previous to the eftablifhment of the Pres 
fent. clear an le n of nomenclature. Linn 
vifited Dillenius ‘at Oxford in 1736, and though the re 
revioufly rather unfavourably eine — a 
reformations and innovations, aa tendi 
culty and confufion in the a i. he foon fo forgot all 
ec 
news at s his coad Giutor in the Pinax, and i 
Hans Sloane oie ee equally difcerning and equally liberal 
the oe Swede mi sad havi san atural'zed among{t 
owever, it is W aL as we have al. 
lu ded toe to the raifchiefs. of eae ivalihip and enmity, 
that partiality among philofophers may fometimes be no lefe 
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