Morifon. 301 
leftured three times a week, to a confider- 
able audience. In this occupation, and ia 
conducing his great work, the " Hijioria 
Flantarum Oxonien/is,' he laboured to the 
time of his death, which was thought to 
have been occafioned by a bruife, received 
by the pole of a coach, in croffing the ftreet, 
Nov. 9, 1683. He died at his houfe in 
Green-Jireety Leicejier Fields, the next day, 
and was buried in the church of St, Mar-^ 
tms in the Fields ^ Wejlminjier . 
Seguier feems to have placed impro- 
perly among Morison's works the firft 
edition of the " Hortus Bkfenfisy' which he 
gives as publifhed in the year 1635, when 
MoRisoN muft have been only fifteen years 
of age. This may have been a typographi- 
cal error ; but the book, in fad:, was the 
work of Abel Bruynek, phyfician to the 
Duke of Orleans^ and was not publifhed till 
1653. Mori son's firil publication was a 
^ fecond edition of this catalogue, under the 
following title : " Hortus Regius Ble- 
sens IS auEfus : accejjit Index Flantarum 
in Horto contentarurn nemini Scriptarum et 
Obferva^ 
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