How. lyx 
two fynonyms, taken, as beft pleafed thq 
author, from various writers on the conti- 
nent, as well as frorn Gerard, Parkin- 
son, and LoBEL. The place of growth to 
each plant is noticed, and the particular 
fpots where the rare ones grow, are fpecified* 
The lift contains 1220 plants, which (as 
few moffes and fungi are enumerated) is a 
copious catalogue for that time, even ad- 
mitting the varieties, which the prefent ftatc 
pf botany would rejed:. 
The author of this little volume was 
unqueftionably a man of very confiderable 
learning, and had a ftrong paffion for the 
knowledge of plants ; but his fituation in 
life does not feem to have allowed him the 
opportunity of travelling into the various 
parts of England, to gratify his tafte in Eng- 
Ujh botany, with which he was not criti- 
cally and extenfively acquainted. Mr. Ray, 
in the preface to his Catalogus Elantarum 
Anglice,'' has given a lift of more than thirty 
fpecies in the PhytQlogia,'' which have no 
title to a place as indigenous, plants of E;2^~ 
fand. Some of thefe being inhabitants of 
Southern 
