252 CHAPTER 19. 
principal auxiliaries are mentioned in the 
preface ; in which, additional to the names 
in the former Synopsis/' we meet with 
thofe of Mr. Edward Llhwyd, Walter 
MoYLE, Efqs and Mr. fViUiam Vernon, 
fellow of St. Peter ^ College, Cambridge, 
To thofe who are fenfible of the obliga- 
tions which the fcience owes to Mr. Ray, 
it cannot but be grateful to read, with what 
fatisfa£tion the good man records, in this 
preface, the progrefs he had lived to fee his 
favourite ftudy make in his own country, 
and with what delight he augurs and con- 
templates its future improvement. In the 
fpace of little more than twenty years, 
and under his own pen, he had feen the 
Englijh Flora acquire an acceffion of up- 
wards of 500 new fubjeds. The " Ca- 
TALOGUS PlANTARUM AnGLI^'' of 
1670, containing about 1050, and the 
fecond edition of the Synopsis" in 
1696, full 1600 fpecies ; and, notwith- 
ftanding thefe have not all flood the teft of 
the difcriminating character of the prefent 
age, yet, in juftice to this great man, and 
bis affociates, it muft be acknowledged, 
4 that 
