HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL 
S K. ETCHES 
O F T H E 
PROGRESS OF BOTANY, 
IN ENGLAND. 
CHAP. 27. 
Earl'ieft riotices of botany in Scotland — Alan Ogil- 
by — Dr. Carglll \ the correjfondent <?/Bauhine 
md Lobel — Hhe Balfoiirs— Sibbald, Anecdotes 
of — His Prodromus Hiftorise Natiiralis Scotise 
— Cor-mcille — B.iflory of Fife and Kinrofs— 
His ether writings, 
Wallace • — Prcfton — -Alilon, Memoirs ^?/— Index 
Officinalium — Tirocinium — Adverje to the 
X.inn^4n/v;to— Materia Medica. 
S I B B A L D . 
IT was late before natural hiikovy arofe ia 
. ScQtlajtd, The ftory of a king yojina, 
who is chronicled to have lived more than 
150 years before the Chriftian asra, having 
written .a book De Virihiis Ilerbarum, is 
not worth a comment. Fingal is faid to 
Vol. IL B , have 
