23^ CHAPTER i8. 
copies of the impreffion by Faithorne, faU 
ling into the hands of Smith and Waif or i 
about that time. Foreign writers niention 
^ an edition fo late as 1 7 1 6 ; but this I fuf-. 
ped: to be a miftake, or owing to another 
transfer of the copies. 
After the firft edition of the Catalogus 
Plantarum Anglide was out of print, Mr* 
Ray had been exhorted by his friend, Dr» 
'Ralph Johnson, to arrange the fecond ac- 
cording to fyftem ; but not having fufii- 
ciently elaborated his method, at that time^^ 
he declined it; and it came out in 16771 
in the alphabetical order. 
A third edition being wanted, however, 
after the publication of the Hiftory of 
Plants," he rneditated throwing it into 
the fyllematic form; and, in the mean time, 
put forth, in 1688, Fasciculus Stir-^ 
piUM Britannicarum, pofi editum Plan- 
tarum Anglia Catahgmn obfer'vatarum!* 
Lond. 8°. By this little volume, a con- 
fiderable acceiiion was made to Englijh 
botany : feveral very rare mountainous or 
jilpine plants, from Wales ; Ibme fcarce on^s 
fron^ 
