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' been excelled by any fubfequent writer. It 
were to be wifhed, that more examples of 
the like kind might be adduced ^ but there 
are few exadtly of the fame fcope. After 
Bifhop Gibson, in his edition of Cam- 
den, printed in 1695, had inferted the 
provincial lifts of plants drawn up by Mr^ 
Ray, feveral writers of county hiftories 
have, either from their own knowledge of 
the fubjed:, or by the aid of friends, inferted 
catalogues of the more rare plants in their 
refpecftive works. As thefe form, in an 
dpecial manner, a part of Englifh botany, 
it is incumbent upon me to enumerate 
them. 
The firft after Camden, Is "The Na- 
*^ tural Hiftory of Lancajhire, CheJJnre^ and 
the Peak in D^'r^j^/r^'." Oxford, 1700. 
foL By Charles Leigh, M. D« The au- 
thor takes into his catalogue the maritime 
plants, with the others, and briefly recites 
the virtues, and the medicinal clalTes, to 
which the fubjeds belong. He fubjoins 
his conjedlures on the food of vegetables, 
and contefts the opinion of Dr. Wood- 
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