24S CHAPTER 19. 
tannias nafcentium S y l l o g e . ^as par tint 
obfervavtt ipfe^ . partim a C. Clufa Hijioria-^ 
C. Bauhini Prodromo^ et Catalogo Bajilienji • 
~F. Columns Ecphrafi ; Catalogis Hollandi-^ 
cariim A, Commelini 5 Allorfmarum M, Hoff^ 
manni Sicularum P. Bocconi Monfpelien-* 
Jitim P, Magnolia collegit y. Raius. Adji-^ 
ciuntur Catalogi rariorum Alpinariim et Py-^ 
renaicaruniy Baldenjium^ Hifpanicarum Grif* 
Jeiiy Grcecarum et Orient alimn^ Creticarun?^ 
Mgyptiacanir/ti aliiqiie : ab eodem^ Lond. 
1694. 8°, pp. 445. ' 
In the preface to this work, Mr. Ray, 
for the firft time, entered into controverfy^ 
having taken occafion to throw out fome 
ftridlures on the method of botany pub- 
lilhed by Rivinus in 1690. It is not 
enough interefting at this day to dwell on 
the nature of it. It is fufficient to obferve, 
that our veteran in fcience was diffatisfied 
with the German^ for throwing the trees 
promifcuoufly into the claffes with other 
plants, and for breaking into the natural 
orders, for the fake of agreement in the 
flower alone. In faclp Rivinus's method 
being founded wholly on the flower, to 
which 
