3ftf Mr. Ray to Mr. Willughby. 



which you being concerned in, (I mean in my Intenti- 

 ons)! fhall communicate to you,and defire firfl: yourSen- 

 tence and Opinion concerning the whole - y and then 

 in cafe of Approbation, your particular Dire&ions as 

 to the Management and carrying on. You remem- 

 ber that we lately, out of Gerard r , Parkin/on^ and 

 Phytologia Britannica, made a Colle£tton of rare 

 Plants, whofe Places are therein mentioned, and rank- 

 ed them under the feveral Counties, My Intention 

 now is to carry on and perfeft that Defign ; to which 

 Purpofe I am now writing to all my Friends and 

 Acquaintance who are skilful in Herbary, to re- 

 queft them this next Summer each to fearch diligent- 

 ly his Countrey for Plants, -and to fend me a Catalogue 

 of fuch as they find, together with the Places where 

 they grow. In divers Counties I have fuch as are 

 skilful and induftrious. For IVarwickJhire and Not- 

 tinghamjhire I mult beg your Afliftance, which I hope, 

 and am confident, you will be willing to contribute. 

 After that, partly by my own Search, partly by the 

 mention'd Afliftance, I fhall have got as much Informa- 

 tion and Knowledge of the Plants of each Countrey 

 as I can, (which will require fome Years) I dodefign 

 to put forth a compleat P. B. which I hope to bring 

 into as narrow a Compafs as this Book. Firfl: I fhall 

 give the Names of all Plants that are or fhall then be 

 found growing in England in an Alphabetical Order 5 

 together with their Synonyma^ excepting fuch as are 

 pention'd in this Catalogue, whofe Synonyma I fhall 

 omit, fetting down only one Name, and referring for 

 the reft to Cat. Cant. I fhall alfo put a full Index An- 

 glicolatinus after the Manner of that injthis Catalogue. 

 Then I fhall put in the Counties, with the feveral rare 

 Plants iij them marfhalled alphabetically. Inftead 

 of putting the particular Places to each Plant in the 

 firfl: Catalogue, I fhall only refer to this : As fuppofe 

 at Sedum fridaSyfites Alpnum^ after I have given the 

 feveral Synonyma y knd the EngBJh Name j inftead of 

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