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Indigenous plants, was equal to his diligence 
and affiduity. In we owe to Gerard 
and his friends the difcovery of many new 
Englifli plants ; and his name will be re- 
membered by botanifts with efteem, when 
the utility of his Herbal is fliperfeded. 
That he was confidered as poffeffing a 
very extenlive fliare of this iclcncQ, we are 
juftified in believing, on the teftimony of 
Mr. George Baker, chief furgeon to the 
queen, v/ho allures us, that he faw him 
tried with one of the beft ftrangers that 
ever came into E?igla?2d, and was ac- 
counted in Paris the only maq, being 
recommended to me," fays Baker, by 
that famous man, Ambrose Parey; 
and he being here, was defirous to go 
*^ abroad with fome of our herbarifts, for 
*f the which I was the mean to bring them 
together, and one whole day wq fpent 
therein, fearching the rarefl fimples: but 
when it came to the trial, my French- 
man did not know one to his four 
* Plumier gave the name Gerardia to a plant of 
the didynamous clafs, difcovered in thetropical regions of 
America^ to which Likn.-^us has fmce added five fpe* 
Among 
