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graved, written byPj^/BoccoNE,on plants, ' 
difcovered by him in the fouthern parts of 
Europe^ principally in Sicily^ of which fome 
were rare, and fome new. Boccone was ori~ 
ginally of Savondy in the Genoefe diftridl ; and 
was born in 1633. He became a Cijiertian 
monk of PalermOy and was a man of lingu- 
lar and various erudition in natural hiftory. 
He viiited Corjica and Malta ; travelled into 
Englandy Holland^ and Germany ; and was 
for fome time botanift to the Duke of Tuf- 
cany. He was the author of feveral very 
curious works ; and died in 1704. He 
wrote on foffils ; but his botanical v/ritings 
have greater originality, and v/ere of high 
value. MoRisoN, after having caufed the 
feven laft plates to be re-engraved, pub- 
liilied the work alluded to above, under the 
following title : 
IcoNEs ef Descriptiones rario- 
RUM Plantarum Melit^y Gallic^y et Ita^ 
lice. Audi ore Paulo Boccone, panormitano 
Jiculoy ferenijfimi magni Etriiria Duels olini 
Botanico.'' 0-^on. 1674. 4°. pp. 96. t. 52, 
.fig. 119. 
MoRisoN^ prefixed to this work a dedi- 
catioa 
