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Ray, 281 
Ray prefixed to his works, both from a 
painting by Faithorne ; one by Rider ^ 
before his Sylloge," in 1693, which 
feems to have been copied for the Me- 
THODUS EMENDATA," in I703 ; 2nd the 
other by Vertue, in 171 3, prefixed to the 
Phyfico-theological Difcourfes/' In both 
thefe, he is reprefented, as Mr. Ames de- 
fcribes it, in " an oval frame, v^itli hair, 
whilkers, band, and canonical habit.'' 
Thefe engravings reprefent Mr. PvAY in 
the latter ftage of his life 
* In dedicating plants to the worthies of botanical fci- 
ence, the name of Ray challenged a dignified place; 
and the liberal-minded foreigner, Vvhole name has before 
occurred on thefe occafions, forgot not fo jufl a tribute, 
Plumier called a new plant of the dioecious clafs, which 
bears the habit of bryony^ and is nearly allied to tk\^ yamsy^ 
which he firft difcovered in the ifle of Doiningo^ by the 
name of Jan-raja, in honour of our illuflrious country- 
man. LinntEus, who had comparatively few opportuni- 
ties of corrci^ng Plumier, eftablillied the genus^ but 
more aptly changed it to Rajania, and enumerates three 
Ipecies. He could not adopt the ftill more analogous 
term of Raia, fmce it had long been preoccupied in the 
animal kingdom ; and it had been juftly conftituted an 
axiom, by the Fundamenta Botantca^ N° 230, not to form, 
in the vegetable kingdom, any generical terms, fynonymous 
to fuch as were employed in zoology or mineralogy. 
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