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or no acceffion by it ^ and I am not aware 
of one indigenous plant firfi: mentioned in 
this lift. 
The fecond part, or alphabetical lift of 
Englifli names, is intended only to lead to 
the Latin generical term in the firft part, 
H o w. 
Until this period, no attempts had been 
made in England to feparate the indigenous 
from exotic botany. It is true. Dr. John- 
son, as before mentioned, had publiflied 
local catalogues of the plants of certain dif- 
trid:s ; but no one had effayed a general lift 
or defcription of the Engliih plants alone, 
in the way of what is now called a Flora : 
a term, which, as far as I can find, was firft 
adopted by Simon Pauli, for a catalogue 
of the plants Denmark, publiflied in i6/\S^ 
It is to Dr. How that we owe the firft 
Iketch of a work of this kind ; and, though 
he does not entitle his book Flora^ he yet 
mentions that term in his preface. 
William How was born in London in the 
year 1619, and educated at Merchant Tay- 
lors fchool. He became a commoner of 
St. John*s college, Oxfof^dy at eighteen ; he 
took 
