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HilPs Britijh Herhal^ which it may be prefumed is in 

 many hands, and which has now fuperfeded, in a 

 great meafure, the Herhals of Gerard and Parkinfon^ 

 being better accommodated to the purpofes of bo- 

 tanic intelligence, and furniflied alfo with 6gurcs. 

 The fecond column refers to the page in Ray's 

 Synopjis of Britip Plants^ where the fynonyms of the 

 two BauhineSy and thofe of Gerard and Parkinfon^ 

 are quoted. By this means the reader is very 

 compendioufly diredlcd to a variety of authors on 

 each plant. For the fake of thofe who wifli to fee 

 an accurate figure, a reference to the Flo7'a Danica 

 is added, a work coming out at the expence of 

 the King of Denmark^ and intended to contain 

 all the indigenous plants of that kingdom, of 

 which 840 plates are already done. Of thefe above 

 500 are natives of this kingdom, on which account 

 it fupplies, fo far, the want of a work of the fame 

 kind here. It muft, however, be obferved, that 

 in this column, under the Grajfes^ thofe excellent 

 tables in Morifon's Hiftoria * Plantarum Oxonienfis 

 are referred to. The columns on the other 

 page contain »the refult of the experiments, for 

 brevity's fake expreffed as in the original, by nu- 

 merical charafters, which it will be neceffary to 

 illuftrate. There is a column retained for every 



* On this head it is much to be regretted, that thcfc 

 tables are not republiftied feparately, with the hiftory of 

 the Graffis and Grain annexed ; a work which, if executed 

 by a proper hand, could not but be acceptable to all lovers 

 of rural economy. This view might be rendered ftill more 

 complete, by extending it to all thofe plants which are par^* 

 t5<iularly the objects of this paper. 



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