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only varieties ; a number of exotics, evidently 
the accidental offspring of gardens, and 
many that could never be met with by 
fucceeding botanifts, in the places fpecified 
by him. He enumerates upwards of 1400 
fpecics of Englijh plants ; whilft the accu- 
rate Mr. Ray, only three years afterwards, 
confines the number to 1050. Neverthe- 
lefs, feveral Britijh plants make their firft 
appearance in this Pinax ; and Dr. Mer- 
RET would probably have fecured his title 
to fome others, if he had not totally omitted 
to give defcriptions of thofe which he in- 
troduces as new. 
The zoological part of this Pinax is ex- 
extremely fuperficial ^ confifting merely of 
the Latin and Englijh name, with a refer- 
ence to Aldrovandus, Gesner, John- 
ston, and MouFFETT. The mineralogy 
is not lefs brief, and imperfed. 
Before the publication of this work. Dr. 
Merret had printed A Collection of 
" A<fts of Parliament, Charters, Trials at 
Law, and Judges Opinions, concerning 
thofe Grants to the College of Phyfi- 
cianSo'* 4°. 1660. This became the ba- 
