Chelfea Garden. 103 
publifhed Tlorti Chelfejani Index CGmpendia- 
riiis. 1739- 8° 
Jofeph Miller publiihed, *^ Botaniciim 
Officinale ; or, A Compendious Herbal : 
giving an Account of all fuch Plants as 
are now ufed in the Pradlice of Phyfic ; 
" v/ith their Defcriptions and Virtues." 8^ 
1722. pp, 466. Tiie plants are alphabeti- 
cally arranged according to the officinal 
names. The Summary of the Virtues is, in 
moft inftances, a tranllation from the Phar- 
macologia of D a l E . 
Except in the Orthotonia, fubjoined to 
Shiptojis edition of Pharmacopoeia Bateana^ 
the Botanicum Officinale of Miller is the 
only book on the fubjed", not of very mo- 
dern date, in which the ftudent is affifted 
in the accentuation of the Latin names of 
plants; but, from the confined nature of the 
plan in thefe works, the benefit is not ex- 
ten five. 
Among the favourable circumftances 
which contributed to dillinguifh, or, I might 
* Houjlon gave the name of Rand to a Wefllndia 
ihrub of the Pentandrous clafs, figured by Shane : and it 
is retained by Linn^us. 
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