72 C H A P T E R 32. 
able his fucceflbrs to refer almoft all his 
fpecies, to the appropriate places in the fyf- 
tem of the prefent day. 
By this negled: of conftrufting genera^ 
Sloane neverthelefs threw into the hands 
of Plumier the grateful opportunity which 
he embraced, of naming the plants of his 
inveftigations after celebrated botanifts. Iri 
juftice, however, to Plumier, it has been 
before obferved, that he was not parfimo- 
nious in the diftribution of thefe favours, to 
the merit of Englijhmen, 
It is worthy of obfervation, that among 
thefe clalTes, there are only two plants be- 
longing to the Umbelliferous tribe, and but 
one genus of the Afperifolicey namely, the 
HeliGtropium, The ferns, on the other 
hand, are very numerous all over the Weji 
India iflands. Sloane has above one hun- 
dred fpecies ^ and Plumier, a few years 
afterwards, detedled many more. 
In this volume, however fmall in bulk, 
yet vaft in labour, there is a circumftance 
much to the credit of Sloane, which muft 
be obvious to every intelligent naturalift. It 
is the carq which the author has taken to 
confult: 
