HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL 
SK EtC H E S 
6 T H E 
PROGRESS OF BOTANY, 
IN ENGLAND. 
C H A p. I. 
¥he origin of Botuny in general— Its ft ate in the 
druidical times — Rites ohjerved by the Druids in 
colleEiing the mlfleltoe, vervain, and felago — 
All but the milTekoe difficult to be ajcertained~ 
Of the herba Britannica, and the roan-tree. 
Saxon Botany— Manujcr if ts extant in that lan-^ 
guage — Saxon verfton c/'Apulcius. 
PRIM-^VAL BOTANY, 
rr^HE origin of Botany, confidered va 
A the moft extenfive view, muft have 
been coeval with man. Before the inven- 
tion of arts, the difcovery of metals, and 
the ufe of implements and arms, by which 
animals were more immediately fubjed:ed 
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