Ray. £47 
formed Capt. Hat ton, that 490/. fter- 
ling had been offered for them. They were 
purchafed of his heirs by the univerfity of 
Ley den y and the late Dr. Frederick Gro- 
Novius conftruded from them an elegant 
and learned Flora Orient alis of which 
lie much enhanced the value, by prefixing 
to it Melchier Adams's Life of Rau- 
WOLF,'* with large additions of his 
own. 
The Catalogus Stirpium in ex- 
TERIS ReGIONIBUS OBSERVATARUM " 
being out of print, Mr. Ray was induced 
to give a new edition of it, with fuch large 
augmentations, as to make it a nev/ work. 
He added from Clusius, from the Bau- 
HiNES, and other authors, a number of 
plants growing in thofe regions through - 
which he palled in his tour ^ and fo many 
catalogues from other authors, as to render 
it a tolerably complete lift of all the Furo^ 
pean plants, not natives of England. As it 
does not immediately refped: Englijh botany, 
it will be fufScient to recite the title-page, 
from which its fcope may be underftood : 
Stirpium Europ^arum extra Bri-^ 
R 4 tannias 
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