burner. ^ 
were exceedingly rare ; and the language 
itfelf in which they are written, had made 
fmall progrefs in E7igland. 
On this head, indeed, my fources of in-^ 
formation are very narrow ; as far as they 
reach, I am not able to find, that one ma- 
pufcript of Theophrastus exiftcd at this 
period, in any of the public libraries of 
England. Of Dioscorides, there are two 
MSS. in the Bodleiariy N°3637, which bear 
the title of " De Herbarwn Natura et Vir^ 
fiitibusy cum Iconibus elegantibusJ' And in 
che fame coUedion, N° 840, an Arabic 
verfion of the five books, cum Nominihus a 
^homa Hyde adjeBis. Of Pliny, there is 
faid to be an entire copy in Baliol library, 
279 ; an imperfed: one, of eighteen 
books only, in the Norfolk colleftion, N* 
2996 ; and an epitome, in Trinity-college, 
Cambridge y N'' 459- 
Even of the works of Hippocrates, 
fcarcely any were known except his Apho- 
rifms and Prognojiics ; and Ltnacre firft 
made the English phyfician^ acquainted 
with Galen. But to return the true Era 
pf Botany in England, muft commence 
Vi^ith 
