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CHAPTER 1 8. 
more perfect view of the ftate of this fci-* 
ence near the clofe of the laft century, than 
will here be found ^ while the work itfelf 
exhibits the great improvement it had re- 
ceived, lince the beginning of the fame pe- 
riod, and to which the author had himfelf 
contributed in an eminent deo:ree. 
The firft volume was publifhed in the 
year 1686, under the following title: "His- 
TORiA Plantarum generalis : /pedes 
haStenus editas aliafque infuper miiltas noviter 
inventas et defcriptas compIeBens ; m qua agi^ 
tur primo de plantis in genere, earumqiie par^ 
tibusy accidentibuSy et differ entiis ; deinde gene- 
ra omnia turn fum?na turn fubalterna ad [pedes 
ufqiie infimas^ notis fuis certis et cbaradlerif- 
tids defmitay methodo naturce vejiigiis injijlente 
difponiintiir 'y /pedes /ngulct acciirat(^ de/cri- 
iuntury ob/ciira iilu/trantur y omiffa /uppleatiir 
/dpef/ua re/ecantury /ynonyma neceffdria adji-- 
diintur : vires denique et i/us recepti compen- 
dio traduntiir, Accefferunt Lexicon Botanic 
cuniy et Nomendator BotanicuSy cwn indidbus 
neceffariis nominum ?norborum et remediorum^^ 
Folio. Vol. I. pp. 984. Vol. II. pp. 985 
— 1944. preter indices^ 1688, 
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