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tlie article of Johnson. Of Mr. Hea- 
TON, I fhall take further notice in the fe- 
quel of thefe anecdotes. 
It has been obferved, that fome of Lo- 
bel's papers fell into the hands of Par- 
kinson, and fome into Dr. How's poffef- 
fion. Thefe were the fragment of Lobe l's 
great work, which How publiilied in 1655, 
under the fubfequent title : 
Matthii^ de Lobel, M.D. botanographi 
regii eximiiy stirpium illustr ationes, 
plurifnas elabcr antes inaiiditas plant as fub-* 
reptitiis Job , Parkinsoni rapjodiis ( ex co- 
dice Af . 5. irifahitato ) fparjim gravatce^ ynf- 
dem adjeBa funt ad calcem Theatri Botanict 
AixxpTVjixcClct . Accuj^ante GuiL Yio^^ ^ Anglo ^ 
Lond. 1655. 4°. pp. 170. 
This work has been noticed under the 
article of Lobel. It is fjfficient to obferve 
here, that the notes which the editor has 
affixed, would almoft perfuade the reader 
that he had publiilied the work with a view 
to take an invidious retrofped; of Parkin- 
son's Theatre," In the preface to the 
Phytologia^' and in that of this work, both 
written in a ilov/erv and bombaft ftile, as well 
as 
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