Royal Garden of in France^ as the fame was enrichM by 
the Munificence and Encoursgement of the Moft Illuftrius Prince 
Gaflon^ late Duke of Orleans , with 360 Plmts , in the fpace of 
five years, by the Angular care and S kil of our Author 5 who in 
this Catalogue hath not only given a fuccint asd pithy defcrip- 
tion of the Plants here enumeratedj but alfo by certain marks dif- 
tiflguirti't iht Perennial ovit%ixomt\i^ Annual adding fome ge- 
n^ralObfervatioas 5Colleded from the Garden abovementionedj 
very neceffary and ufeful toallthat areftudious in Botinicks, 
The fecondj contains fome Animadverfions not inconfidera- 
ble, both on iht Finaxoi Cafpar Bauhinus 3 (hewing his miftakes 
as well in the D geftiag as Naming of Plants and on the ^/To- 
mes of the Vnivcrfal Hiflor) of Plants of Johannes Bauhinus. 
To which is annexed i Dialogue between a Fellow of the 
and the Author 5 containmg an Anfwerto feveral Queries 
propdfed ^ where is intimated the beft. General Method taken 
from.Natuire it felf, of digefting all Plants , and reducing them 
to certain C/i^jf^j or H^^ii/j accordi^^^ to the difference of their 
Seeds , Poddsand Flowers 5 by the advantage whereof theScu^ 
dy and Remembring of Plants may be much facilitated, and the 
Contemplation thereof among all forts of Men exceedingly pro- 
moted : For the publifbing of which kind of Method our Author 
profefleth himfelfe to be already in great forwardnefs , entertai- 
ning good hopes, he ftiall by the Affiftance and Encouragement 
of the Generous 3 be enabled to give good fatisfadion to the 
Carious therein. 
11. C L. S A L M A S 1 1 Pr^e^atio in Librum De HOMO- 
N YMIS HYLES lATR IC^^: Ejafdem de PLI- 
N I O J U D I CI Q M. jyhioney A. 1668, in quarto. 
This Book is an Introdudion to a large Volume^ compofd by tKe 
famous Salmafiwf, and now in the hands of thofe two Honourable perfons^ 
chat haire taken care of the Publifhing of this Preface • both Counfellors of 
the Parliament of ^^/'j;^;^^, Meffieurs Lantin^ni. Be la Mare which 
Volumt gives an Account of the many and great miftakes committed hither- 
to in the Hiftory of Plants, uponthefcore of Naming them.- In the doing 
of which it hath come to pafs, that feverall names beingoften given to one 
and the fame Plant, ^nd vice verfa^ oneand the fame name to dijOferent 
Plants, there hath enfued a great and dangerous ccnfufion in that large 
part of the Materia MeMca, highly requiring to be red:ifed. Now to 
that Work this Fref^r^ prepares the way^ by ftiewing to che ftudious ia 
