312 CHAPTER 63. 
With refped to Englifh botany, great com- 
munications had been made by Sloane, 
Petiver, DooDy, Sherard, and others. 
By thefe means, this volume contains near-* 
ly double the number of the former ^ but 
the latter part of it proves, too evidently, 
that it did not receive the finifhing hand of 
the original author ^ fince it appears in a 
very abridged form, compared v^ith what 
MoRisQN himfelf had done. 
B O B A R T, 
"Jacob Bob ART, the continuator of Mo-» 
Kison's Hiftory, was the fon of Jacoby the 
firft fuperintendant of the Garden, upon its 
foundation in 1632. Both the father and 
fon filled their ftation with great credit tq 
themfelves, and no lefs emolument to the 
Garden. The cider is faid to have been the 
author of the firft edition of the Hortus 
Oxonienjis^' 1648 ; and his name is joined 
in the fecond edition, 1658, as an aflbciate 
in the work, with Dr. Stephens and Mr. 
* The name of Morison is perpetuated by Plumier, 
in the application of it to a Weft Indian tree of the mona-, 
delphous clafSj hitherto defcribed only by himfelf and Jac- 
Browne, 
