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nknCes of life, independent even of thofe 
charms, which the views of nature ever af- 
ford to contemplative minds, that he foon 
made it an objed: of attention ^ and num- 
bered among his affociates in thefe ftudies, 
Mr. NiD, a fenior fellow of his own col- 
lege, Mr. Francis Willughby, and Mr. 
Peter Courthope. The firft of thefe 
gentlemen became his infeparable compa- 
nion ; but he had the misfortune to deplore 
his death, a little time before the publica- 
tion of his firft work, which came out under 
the title of Catalogus Plantarum 
CIRCA Cantabrigiam nascentium/' 
Cantab. 1660." pp. 182. ctun Indidbus, 
&c. pp. 103. 12°. 
This little volume contains all the plants 
which the author had obferved fpontane- 
oufly growing in the neighbourhood of 
Cambridge, amounting to 626, all varieties 
and dubious plants excluded. The num- 
ber is fmall, when compared v/ith many 
modern catalogues ; but not fo, v/hen it is 
recolledled, that, at that period, a very few 
of the Cryptogamia clafs, and not many of 
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