iZz CHAPTER 14. 
names, kinds, temperature, virtues, ufe, 
dofe, danger, and antidotes ; together 
with an introduftion to herbarifme, &c. 
an appendix of exotics, and an univerfal 
index of plants, fhewing what grow wild 
in England ; 2d edition with additions." 
Oxford, 1665, 12°. 
To thofe whofe curiofity leans that way, 
it may not be eafy to direfl: them to a more 
concife, or more perfedlly methodical ar- 
rangement of fimples, according to the Ga- 
lenical principles of the four elements, tem- 
peraments, and qualities, than may be met 
with in the introdudion to this book. 
The arrangement of the matter in the 
work itfelf is according to the alphabet of 
the Englidi names y to which is fubjoined 
the place of growth, the time of flowering, 
then the name in Greek, and the Latin of- 
ficinal term. There are no defcriptions of 
the plants ; but the qualities and ufes of 
each are colle£led from a profufion of au- 
thors, and applied to all the fpecies under 
each generical term ; the form in which 
the medicine fhould be given, the authority 
for each carefully cited, and the officinal 
compounds 
