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each fummer, and make excuriions to in^ 
veftigate plants. The Itineray publifhed 
by Johnson, may be confidered as the fruit 
of fuch expeditions in his day. But they 
had been difcontinued, as I apprehend, for 
many years. After the foundation of the 
Garden, this laudable praclice was revived, 
and the affociations fixed to flawed periods, 
and put under regulations ; the herborizings 
being now diftinguifhed into private and 
general. The firft, intended to excite a 
tafte for botany among the apprentices of 
the Company, begin on the fecond Tuefday 
of April, and are held monthly, on the 
fame day, till September inclufively, in fome 
of the villages in the immediate neighbour- 
hood of London, At the end of the feafoii, 
the premium of a copy of Ray's Synopju, 
(fmce changed for Mr. Hudson*s Flora 
AngUca) is prefented to the young man 
who has been the moft fuccefsful in difco- 
vering and inveftigating the greateil: num- 
ber of plants. The general herborization 
is annual only, in July 5 when the Demon- 
ftrator, and others of the Court of Aflift- 
ants, belonging to the Company, make an 
excurfion to a confiderable diftance from 
the 
