206 C H AFTER i6. 
parts of England, taken with a profeffed 
view, to afcertain the *loci natales of all the 
native plants, more accurately than had yet 
been done 5 to inveftigate the more rare, and 
perchance to difcover new ones. In each 
of thefe departments he had proved fnccefs- 
fal, and in this year drew up his Cata- 
logue,'' and dedicated it to his friend and 
AlscenasMr. Willughby, under the fol- 
lowing title, ''Catalogus Plantarum 
ANGLiiE et injiilarum adjacentium turn 
indtgenas turn in agris pajfim ciiltas com- 
fkBens.'' Lond, 1670, pp. 358. 8°. 
This work is modelled after the Cam- 
bridge Catalogue in general, as to the order 
of the fubjed:, except that the author has 
been much more fparing of the fynonyms, 
from all authors but the four claflial wri- 
ters, Gerard, Parkinson, and the two 
.Bauhines. Several new plants are de- 
scribed in this volume, and .many doubtful 
•ones difcrimin.ated, v/ith that critical accu^ 
racy vvhich fo fingularly marked his pen ^ 
and which had not before been feen in^my 
Englijlj v/riter... 
Hitherto the cryptogamous and gramina^ 
eeous 
