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together with an Account of moft of the Writers that have 
handled the Subjed of Plants. The firft Book treats of 
Plants in general ; as of their Roots, Stalks, Sap, Juices, 
their Motions, and Differences ; of Gems or Buds, Leaves, 
Flowers, Fruits, Seeds, Clavicles or Climbers, Prickles, 
their Varieties, and Vegetations ; of Sowing, Propaga- 
ting, Cultivating, Grafting, or Inoculating ; of the TranC- 
mutation of Plants, their Statures or Magnitudes, their A- 
ges or Duration, their Faculties, Tafts, and Ufes, their 
Places, and Divifions \ of CoUeding, Drying, and Prefer- 
ving them, their Chymical Jmljfis , and their Di- 
leafes» 
The 2d. Book begins with Particulars, as the imp:;rfe£l 
Plants, fuch as feem to have no Flower or Seed ; thele are 
either Submarine^ as the Corah y Sponger, Aigas^ Wracks j &c. 
or Terreftrial, as the MuJhroomSy and barren Mojjes. Or Sub- 
terraneous, as the Truffles ; fome of the Fungi and MoJfeSy 
have vifibte Seeds,: Thefe , are all fubdiyided into fubordi- 
nate Genera^ 2iS ti\Q Mufhroorm according to their LamelUy 
Plates, Brims, and Caps; and as they are noxious, or efcu- 
lent; or grow upon Trees* -i ? r' oi - . ' ^-t , 
' \ Til© • ■ 'Book contains the Capillary or Acauiofc 
Herbs, which bear their very minute Seeds on the backs of 
their Leaves, that are confpicuous by the Mkrofcope : Thefc 
are fiibdivided according to their Leaves, as they are 
whole, entire and undivided ; or varioully cut, laciniated, 
pinnate, and ramofe. Of this Kind are t\iQ Ferns ^ the Spleen- 
worts, Polypodies^ Mai den-Hair Sy &c, which have nothing 
like a Flower.. ^ 
ThQ^th. Treats of fuch Herbs as have an imperfcd or ^ 
ftamineous Flower, commonly calfd Jfetalofe, becaufeifc 
is not compofed of P^/'^/^ or tender fugacious coloured 
Leaves, only of a Calyx oi Cup, of Stamina ov Capilla- 
ments of Styles. Thefe are fubdivided, L into fuch whofe 
Fruits are not contiguous to their Flowers ; as in Hops^ 
Hmpy Net til Spin ache ^ Mercury , Falma Chrifii^the American 
