Sloane* yi 
Insula Jamaica sponte proveniunt, 
vel vu/go coluntur-y cum earundem Synonymis 
€t Locis n at alt bus ; adjeBis aliis quibufdam 
quce in Infulis Maderce^ Barbados ^ Nieves^ et 
SanBi Chrijiophori najcuntur : feu Frodromi 
Hijlorm Naturalis Jamaic(^ Pars PrimaJ' 
8°. 1696. pp. 232. Prater Indicem valde 
copiofum Nominum et Synonymorum, 
This volume, intrinlically valuable as it 
is, may yet be confidered as only the no- 
menclature, or fyftematic index to his fub- 
fequent work. The arrangement of the 
fubjedt (and v/hich w^as ftridrly followed in 
TheHiftory,'') is nearly that of Mr. Ray 
vegetables being thrown into twenty-five 
large natural claffes, or families. Among 
botaniJfts of that time, generical charaders 
had not attained any remarkable precifion ; 
and Sloane, like Plukenet, was little 
farther anxious, than to refer his nev/ plants 
to fome genus already eftablifhed, without 
a minute attention to the parts of fructifi- 
cation, farther than as they formed part of 
the charadler drawn from habit: yet with 
this defed:, the figures and defcriptions of 
Sloane proved fujSiciently accurate to en- 
F 4 able 
