( ) 
CHAP. 20, 
.Account (?/*Ray continued — Improved edition of the 
Methodus Plantarum — Outlines of Ray's fyf-- 
tern — T'bird volume of the Hiftoria Plantarum 
— Methodus Infedtorum — H/j Death and 
CharaEier. 
KAY. 
^ I "^HE peaceable mind of Mr. Ray 
A could not delight in the contentious 
field of controverfyj on the contrary, he 
regretted the occafions that drew him into 
it : yet were they not without ufe, fince 
they unqueftionably ftimulated him to pu- 
rify and correft his own Methodus, This he 
eflfefted in the year 1698, although at this 
time much declined in his health, being 
affli6led with ulcers of the lower extremi- 
ties, the pain of which rendered his nights 
frequently fleeplefs, and wholly prevented 
him from making excurfions to London ^ as 
he much defired, to examine the eardens 
sind herbaria of the curious. 
Vol. I. S So 
