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94. C H A P T E K 7, 
Turganttum Hijioria of Dodon^ us, of 
which Lyte appears onqueftionably to have 
introduced the mofl: material fubjeits. 
Enghfh Botany, however, received little 
or no acceflion from Lyte himfelf. It is 
not in more than about twenty inftances, 
that he has even pointed out the local fitu^ 
ation of any rare Englifh plants ^ and, in 
thefe inftances, there is fcarcely one, which 
had not been thus fpecifically recorded by 
Turner and Lobel, before him. 
Hence, I am not able to give Lyte the 
credit, although he lived at fo early a pe- 
riod, of being the firft difcoverer of a fin- 
gie fpecies of rare growth. Yet, as it is 
but juftice to iuppofe him well acquainted 
with all the common plants, fo a large 
number of thefe, which had been unnoticed 
by Turner, or are not eafily afcertained 
iji his work, v/ill be found firft announced 
to the Endifli Botanlft in Lyte. I con- 
fefs, however, that it is extremely difficult 
to determine, in a variety of inftances, whe- 
ther the general places of growth, as men- 
tioned in this author, are inferted from his 
own knowledge, or whether they ftand as 
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