Glen. ' 63 
He difcovered feveral new plants, both in 
the Eajl Indies, and at the Cape of Good 
Hope 
GLEN. 
Among the contemporaries of Mr. Ray, 
I am led, from private information, to men- 
tion Andrew Glen, M. A. a divine, who, 
although his name does not occur in the 
writings of his time, was the friend and ac- 
quaintance of that eminent man ; having 
probably acquired a tafte for fimilar purfuits, 
from a frequent intercourfe with him, at 
the feat of his illuftrious friend, Mr. Wil- 
LUGHBY, near Nottingham, I have feea 
an Herbarium, colleded by Mr. Glen, 
which bears date in 1685, containing up- 
wards of feven hundred indigenous, and 
two hundred exotic plants. Some of thef© 
* Dr. Plukenet denominated a new genus of African 
plants belonging to the Pentandrous clafs, Erioccphaks Bru- 
nlades^ in honour of Alexander Brown. Linnaeus has 
perpetuated the genus j but, agreeably to his rules, which 
do not admit of fuch terminations, has changed the term 
to Brunia, of which fome fpecies are known in th^ Eng* 
Ufh gardens. 
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