Ray. 265 
fole purpofe of gratifying their tafte in bo- 
tany. Mr. Petiver freely communicated 
his ftores, at that time very ample, though 
afterwards abundantly more fo ; and Dr. 
Sherard engaged, befides fupplying more 
than a thoufand fpecies himfelf, to take the 
trouble of infpefting the whole work before 
it went to the prefs, and of making fuch cor- 
redlions and additions as he judged proper. 
It was the laft of his works publiflied in 
his life-time, and came out in 1704, with 
the following title : 
Historic Plantarum Tomus 
TERTius, qui ejl Supplementum duorum 
prcecedentium j fpecies omnes^ vel omijfas, veL 
poji volumina ilia eviilgata editas^ prceter in^ 
numeras fere novas et indidtas ab amicis com ^ 
municatas^ complediens : cum fynonymis necejfa- 
riisy et ufibus in cibo^ medicijia, et mechanicis.^* 
Lond. folio, pp. 666 ; and the Dendro^ 
logia;' pp. 135, App. pp. 137. 
The diftribution is the fame as that of 
the two former volumes. In a compilation 
of this kind, collefted from fo numerous a 
fet of authors, and in many inftances from 
dried and imperfedt fpecimens, there muft 
neceflarily 
