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The Sicilian plants ofBoccoNE; but above 
all, the vaft treafiire of the fix firft volumes 
of the HoRTUs Malabaricus 3 v^ith 
many from works of leffer note. 
After prefixing an infi:ru6live lift of the 
writings of near an hundred botanical au- 
thors, quoted by him in the body of the 
book, and giving an explanation of terms, 
there follov/s a very comprehenfive account 
of the philofophy of vegetables ; in v/hich 
the anatomy and phyfiology of plants, from 
Malphigi, from Grew, and from his ov/n 
experiments ; the differences of the parts 
of vegetables, from Jungius and others, are 
explained and illufi:rated, with that judg- 
ment and knowledge of the fubjedl, and 
v/ith that concifenefs and methodical accu- 
racy, which, I believe, had rarely, if ever, 
been equalled by preceding v/riters. This 
has rendered the introdudion to his Hif- 
tory, a choice compendium of all that was 
valuable in the fcience of his day ; nor is 
the information it conveys fo far fuperfeded 
by any fubfequent difcoveries, as to render 
it, even nov/, an uninterefting trad:. It is 
not eafy to refer the modern ftudcnt to a 
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