Morifm, 30^ 
cation to Mr. Hatton, in which he de« 
fends, not only the doftrine in general, that 
all plants fpring from feed, but particularly, 
againft Diosgorides, and fome of the re- 
llorers of fcience, among whom were 
SALPINUS, that all the ferns are furnifhed 
with flowers and feed. 
The plants defcribed and figured in this 
book, are, moft of them, fuch as had not 
teen noticed by foregoing authors. A few 
of thefe are common to Britain. The 
figures are fmall, and neither well deline- 
ated, nor well engraven : but the work h^d 
its ufe, as containing fome plants of Sou- 
thern 'Europe^ not to be met with in any 
other author; and on this account derives 
fome value, to thofe who are curious in 
purfuing the hiftory of plants in the fexual 
fyftem, as being quoted by Linn^us. 
As a fpecimen of his great work, medi- 
tated under the name of Ilijloria Plant a-* 
rum U?nverfalis Oxonienjis^' Mori son next 
publifhed, " Plantarum Umbellife- 
RARUM^DisTRiBUTio NOVA, per tabulas 
cognatiojiis et affinitatis^ ex libro Natiirce 
ohfervata et detecta^ Oxon. 1672. foL 
Vol. I. X pp. 91, 
