Kay. 229 
In the general arrangement of the fub- 
jeft, according to his own fyftem, he has in 
various inftances improved the claffes. At 
the head of each book or clafs is prefixed 
a iynoptical table of all the chapters or ge - 
nera. 
In the particular difpolition, after prefix- 
ing to each chapter the etymology of the 
generical name, he gives the chara£ler of 
the genus ; and in the enumeration of the 
Ipecies, [quotes at length the fynonyms of 
Cafpar Bauhine, from his Pinax^' and 
thofe of John Bauhine, Gerard, and 
Parkinson, from their refpediive hiftories; 
feldom introducing others, w^here the plant 
was known to any of thefe writers. 
His defcriptions of the old plants are 
taken from the above-mentioned authors. 
They are commonly abridged, however 3 and 
in numberlefs inftances amended, from his 
own knowledge of the plants. He fails not 
to notice from whom they are taken, and has 
every where diftinguifhed the Britifh plants 
from the exotics. He has carefully marked 
all fuch as he had not had an opportunity 
pf infpecting himfelf. He adds the places of 
0^3 growth^ 
