42 C H A P T K R 3. 
pears to he the convolvulus major of the mo-. 
derns j and the tekphiuniy the cerinthe minor. 
Finally, that if thofe enumerated in the 
note fo ill exprefs the plantsv defigned, it 
tnuft be wholly attributed to the fault of 
the copier or engraver. This intelligence 
is attended with regret, when we further 
learn, that after fome of thefe icons were 
lately engraved, with a view to the publi- 
cation of the whole, the defign has been 
laid afide. 
I fhall be thought, perhaps, in the fore^ 
going pages, to have digreffed too much, 
I have to allege, that a brief view of the 
general ftate and progrefs of phyfic, with 
which my fubjed; is infeparably connecSed^ 
during the dominion of the Saracens in the 
Eaft, and in the ages of ignorance preceding 
the fourteenth century in the Weft, feemed 
neceffary in order to throw light on the 
introdudlion of it into this ifland. And as 
England Aared the improvement ariling 
from the reftoration of antient knowledge, 
a fliort notice of the three principal botaniq 
authors was deemed not lefs proper. 
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