iynoptical tables, which he had printed in 
Bifliop WiLKiNs's " Real Charader/' in 
1668. It bears the following title : 
*^ Methodus Plantarum nova bre^ 
^itatis et perjpicuitatis caufd fynoptice in ta^ 
btilis exhibita : cum notis Generum turn Jum~ 
morum turn fiib alter nor iim char act erijlicis. 
Objervationibiis nonnuUis de feminibus Plan- 
tarum et indice copiofo.'* Lond. 1682. 8^. 
pp. 166. 
LiNN-^us, on what authority I know 
not, mentions an edition of this work, with 
the date of 1665, totally feparate from that 
of 1682 ; but as that is earlier than Bifliop 
WiLKiNs's Table, it is probably a mif- 
take. 
The firft principle of Mr. Ray, in this 
work, is to preferve all plants together, as 
far as poffible, in the natural charaders, 
arifing from conformity in the frudtifica- 
tion, and in the general habit. Hence arofe, 
with him, in common as with others, too 
great a negled: of the flower, and too much 
attention to the leaves. He adheres to the 
ancient divifion of the vegetable kingdom, 
into trees, fhrubs, and herbaceous plants ; 
ranking. 
