Hortus Oxonwijis, i6y 
Guliehm Broune, A. M. adhibit is etiam in 
con/ilium D. BoBerto patre^ hortiilano aca- 
demico ejufque filioy utpote rei herbaria call en* 
tiJfmisJ" Oxon. 1658. 8\ pp. 214. 
Of Dr. Philip Stephens, whofe name 
ftands firft among the authors of this cata- 
logue, we find little mention elfewhe re, as 
eminent in botanical fcience. He was born 
2X the Devizes in Wiltjhire^ and was firft of 
St. Alban*s Hall, Qxon ; afterwards made 
Fellow of New College by the vifitors, and 
became Principal of Magdalen HalL He 
died at London after the ReiLoration, 
Merret, without any notice of Dr. 
Stephens, exprefsly calls Mr. BroWxME 
the author of this Catalogue ^ and Wood 
fays, that he had the chief hand in it. 
William Browne was a native of Oxford^ 
became Bachelor of Divinity, and Senior 
Fellov/ of Magdalen College. He died in 
March 1678, aged about 50, and was bu- 
ried in the outer chapel of his college. 
In this enlarged edition, the authors have, 
in every inftance where it was poffible, not 
only adopted the fpecifical appellations giv- 
cii by Gekard and Parkinson to each 
