258 CHAPTER 20. 
So fmall, however, was the demand for 
books in this faience, at the entrance of this 
century, that the London bookfellers were 
unwilhng to rifk the printing of it : and it 
was finally fent to Holland, and printed at 
Amjierdam, under the care of Dr. Hot- 
TON, the botanical profelTor at Leyden, who 
fupervifed the prefs, and procured iioo 
copies to be thrown off, under the title of 
*'Methodus Plantarum emendata 
ET aucta : accedit Methodus Graminum-y 
yuncoruMy et Cyperorum fpecialisJ" S**. pp. 
20^. 17^3* Dr. HoTTON gave a further 
fanftion to the fyftem of his friend j he 
taught it in his ledures to the pupils of 
that univerfity, and informed Mr. Ray of 
the good acceptance it met with on the 
continent, particularly in Italy. This vo- 
lume was reprinted at Amjlerdam in 171 o, 
and at Tubingen in 1733. 
In the preface he recapitulates his own 
progrefs in the formation of his fyflem, and 
dates it from the tables drawn up in 1667 
for the ufe of Bifliop Wilkins. He very 
juftly reprehends Dr. Mori son, for afFed- 
ing to have formed his method entirely. 
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