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302 CHAPTER 23. 
Obfervationes generalioresy feu Frceludlomm 
paj'-s pj^iorJ' Lond. 1669. 12"*. 
The " HoRTUs Blesensis" raifed the 
author's character, and contributed, as the 
writer of his Hfe obferves, to recommend 
him to the ftation he afterwards held at 
Oxford. It contains the rudiments of his 
method of claffification. He profefTes to 
give a hft of 260 new plants; but many of 
them proved to be only varieties, and others, 
fuch as were well known before. There 
were, never thelefs^ fome new and rare plants, 
of exotic, as well as indigenous origin ; the 
latter, fuch as he had himfelf firft difco- 
vered in France, 
In this work is alfo given his " Hallu- 
ciNATioNEs in Caspari Bauhini Pma-- 
cerriy tam in digerendts quam denominandis 
Plantis 'y et his Ant?nadv erf ones y in tres T^o-- 
mosy Hi [lor ice PI ant arum Johannis Bau- 
hini f a work which Haller calls Invi^ 
diofum Opus f and which, while it proves 
both the accuracy and diligence of the au- 
thor, muft be confeffed to be unbecomingly 
fevere on thefe two illuftrious writers ; who, 
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