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An Accompt of fome Boohj,. 
i.PL ANTJRVM VMBELLIFERAIiVM BlJirMo mm pr 
rdulas COGNATION IS & AFFINITATIS ex LibroNdtura 
dfervata & dete5la ^ A.KohMon{on Med, & FrofBotm.Regio^&c. 
Oxonli € Theatro Sheldomam^i6']2, To be foldby John Martyn at the 
Bell in St. Pauls Chtirch-yard, 
His Excellent Botanift, having with imiefatigable induflry ard 
uncommon fagacity obfcrved and difcovered out of the Book of 
Nature a general and genuine Method, reducing all Vegetables to cer. 
tain infallible Clares or Heads, by Tables of Affinity or Cognation 
hath in this Book given an of the fame, by reducing that Fa- 
mily of Plants, commonly called to their fubakern kinds, 
from the different Shape and Form of their Seeds i Intending, if he 
do further meet with fuitable encouragement and affiftance, to pub- 
lifh the whole Method and Work, in a manner lying ready by him, 
and tending fo much to the advancement of a vaft part of Natural 
Hiftory. 
This Sfecmen^ being but the thirtieth part of the whole, firft affign- 
cth very fuccindly to the Vmbelliferow Plants that common Chara- 
fter, wherein they all agree amongfl themfelves, and are differenced 
from all other families and then reckons up their feveral, b5th in^ 
termediat and ultimatjfpecics'j, together with their refpedive fub- 
ordinate and charafterical difcriminations. By which way the Stu- 
dents of Botanicks will henceforth be able to learn from Nature it 
felf, with much order, clearnefs, and eafe of memory, all forts of 
plants by their fupreme genus's^ iutermediat kinds,and lowefty^mV/s, 
and their particular varieties • without a tedious perufal of volumi- 
nous Books, and an irkforae expence of Time. 
And as this Experienced Author takeththe (JmrzV^/ and Effential 
marks of Phnts from their Seeds h fo he taketh the SfecificalAiS^ttXi- 
ces of their feveral particular families under one common Head from 
their lefs noble parts, as the Root, Leaf, Flower, Stera^ Scent, 
Taftjarid Colour, 
The Reader then willin this Bjfay find performed thef§ five things: 
Firft, a G^^^mV^Note both of the higheft and fubakern genusV of the 
Vmbells, Secondly, a fpecifical mark proper for each ffmes^lhiti^ 
ly,the duration of every j^<ffi^w,whether annual or perennial. Fourth- 
ly, the Place of their growth, together with their peculiar tempera- 
ment, vertue&,and names* Fifthly, the Authors aniraadverfions on 
the errors and miftakes of CBaMms, and other Authors, that have 
written on this argument. * , , 
The whole adorned and illuftrated with very curious and exceed- 
ingly accurat C^^-j, furnilli't at the charge of feveral of the, Gene- 
rous and Learned members of the Famous Univerfity of Oxford y and 
engraven by that rare Artift Mr. 
N»B, Since the writing of this Accompt concerning this ufefull 
work, we are informed by the Author thereof, that he already find- 
