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that he intended to travel throughout the 
kingdom in fearch of the more rare plants, 
and afterv/ards to comprife all his difcove- 
ries in an appendix. 
In 1634, he publifhed Mercurius 
BoTANicus ^ Jive A'tiT ARVU gratia fuf- 
cepti Itineris, anno 1634, Description cum 
earum Nominibus Latinis et Anglicis * ' * i ond. 
8vo. pp. 78. 
It is dedicated to Sir Theodore Mayerne^ 
and others of the college, in his own, and 
the names of his affociates in the excurfion, 
who were all of the company of the Apo- 
thecaries. It was the refult of a journey, 
through Oxford, to Bath and Brijloly and 
back by Southampton, the Ifle of Wight, and 
Guildford, made with the profeffed defign 
to inveftigate rare plants. He has defcribed, 
in not inelegant Latin, their rout, which 
took up only twelve days, and the agree- 
able reception they met with among their 
medical acquaintance. We meet with a 
lift of exotics, amounting to 117, cultivated 
by Mr. George Gibbs, a furgeon at Bath, 
who had made a voyage to Virginia, from 
whence he brought many new plants ; 
which, as it exhibits the advanced ftate of 
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