j4 CHAPTER 29. 
fhort defcriptions, of animals of all the or- 
ders, vegetables, and foffils : among thefe 
are m2LXVj American ferns, plants of the^/^j-, 
and from thd Cape of Good Hope all, either 
very rarely feen before,. or nondefcripts. It 
will retain its value while Linn^^us's wri- 
tings are in ufe. 
Among the provincial lifts of plants, 
printed in Bifhop Gibson's edition of 
Camden in 1695, Mr. Petiver com- 
municated the Middle/ex plants. All the 
others were drawn up by Mr. Ray, as was 
obferved under his article. 
Next to the Gazophykchim in the order 
of time, although not a diftind; work, was 
publiflied, in Mr. Ray's third volume of 
his Hiftory of Plants, Plant.^^: rario- 
res Chinenses, Madraspatan^ €t 
ApRiCANiE, a Jacobo Petivero, ad Opus 
confummandiim collates: cum ejiifdem Catalogo 
Plant arum in Ho rt is fiiis ficcis cojiferuatarumy 
quce vel ineditc^^ aiit ha^enus obfcure defcriptce 
flint : adjicitur Farrago Stirpium Indicarum^ 
et American arum incertce Sedis" 
The firft of thefe catalogues amounts to 
1 84 plants : thofe of the Hortus ficcus^ to 
more 
