Farkinfon,. 1 49 
more particular in pointing out the places 
•of growth. In the enumeration of the 
fynonyms, he has not only given nearly the 
whole of B A u H I N E ' s ' * PinaXy ''but, ver}/ fre - 
quently, has himfelf confulted the original 
authors, and enters minutely into a difcuf- 
lion of their doubts. In the account of the 
■virtues, and ufes, Parkinson is difFule. It 
v/as his profelled defign to make his work a 
Materia Me die a and ifj in him, we meet 
with the qualities of plants eilimated on 
Galenical principles, by the degrees of hot 
and cold, moift and dry, 6-cc. it was th.e 
theory of the day^ from which authors of 
higher eminence v/ere not emancipated. 
Pie not only gives the opinions of the Greek 
and Roman phyficians, but of the Arabi- 
ans, and has tranilated from the moderns, 
and his contemporaries, whatever could il- 
luftrate his fubject, and render it as perfedt 
as the intelligence of the times would al- 
low. To this end he has extracted lari?e1y 
from Clusius's Exotics,'' from D'x\- 
COSTA, MoNARDES, and Garcias ah 
HoRTo on the drugs and fniiules of the 
O i 
.Eaft and Weft Indies y of v/hich^ at that 
L 3 ■ time^ 
