Ray. 255 
log to dwell upon at this time. The prin- 
ciples of the Corolliftc^y and the FruBiJice, 
as LiNNi^;us ftyles them, can never be 
alTimilated, and all attempts to reduce 
the whole vegetable kingdom into natural 
claffes have hitherto failed. 
In 1697, he wrote Some Obfervations. 
on the Poifonous Effefts of a Root eaten 
inftead of Parfneps/' fuppofed to have 
been that of the Hemlock ; but of which 
Mr. Ray had fome doubt, alledging, that 
it was m^ore probably the Cicutaria 'vulgarisy 
( CharophylliLm fyhejlrey Lin.) See PML 
Tranf, In N° 238, he communi- 
cated Remarks on the Poifonous EfFefts 
*^ of the Oenanthe crocatay' too fatally 
confirmed by later miftakes of the fartie 
kind. 
In the year 1700, Mr. Ray publifhed 
*^ A Persuasive to a Holy Life, from 
the Happinefs which attends it both in 
this World and in the World to come." 
Lond, 8\ Reprinted in 1719. pp. 126. 
He tells us it was drawn up at the requeft 
of his friend, Mr. Edmund Elys, and that it 
i« compofed on the model of Bi£hop Wil- 
KiNs's 
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