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plants, he has drawn from the ancients ; 
but has, in numberlefs inftances, given his 
©pinion of thdr qualities, in oppofition to 
thofe fages, and recorded his own experi-* 
ence of the virtues. He no where takes 
any doubtful plants upon trufl:, but appears 
to have examined them with all the preci- 
fion ufually exercifed at a time when me- 
thod, and principles nov/ eftablifhed, werp 
unthought of ; every where comparing thenn 
with the defcriptions of the antients and 
moderns. He firft gave nam.es to many 
Englifli plants ^ and, allowing for the time 
when fpecifical diftincllons were not efta- 
bli&edj when almoft all the fmall plants 
were difregarded, and the Cryptogamia almoft 
wholly overlooked, the number he was 
acquainted with, is much beyond what 
could eafily have been imagined, in an ori- 
ginal writer on his fubjedl. 
The third part of his Herbal," dated 
from JVelles, June 24, 1564, he dedicates to 
the company of furgeons ^ and apologizes 
for its imperfeilions : Being fo much 
vexed with ficknefs, and occupied with 
preaching, and the ftudy of divinity, an4 
F 3 exercife 
