j6 CHAPTER 29. 
tempted before) a fet of diftind figures of 
Britijh plants. Unfortunately he lived not 
to finifli it. 
This work, which diftinguifhes Peti- 
VER as an auxiliary to Englifh botany, bears 
the title of A Catalogue of Mr. Ray's 
" Englifh Herbal^ illaftrated with Figures." 
fol. 1 71 3. t, 50; and continued with the 
four-leaved flowers," t. 51 — 72. fol. 1715. 
Twelve plants are engraved on each plate. 
The work ends with the feventeenth clafs. 
The figures are little more than outlines, but 
they are neat; and though they have the 
defedt of the old herbals, in being all on a 
fimilar fcale, were valuable, and efpecially 
as pointing out many of the varieties in the 
Sy?2opJts of Ray, particularly among the 
Apetalous and Syngenejious tribes. A new 
impreffion of thefe plates was made under 
the infpe£tion of Sir Hans Sloane, in 
Thefe were the moft material works of 
Petiver. His fmaller publications a« 
mount to a great number, and are of lefs 
importance at this day, as being principally 
fliort catalogues and Cngle tables of rare 
plants. 
