loS CHAPTER 34. 
DooDY, the contemporary and friend of 
Ray, Plukenet, and Sloane, who all 
bear teftimony to his merit. I regret the 
want of more information relating; to this 
affiduous man ; of whom I can only fay, 
that he was born in Siaffordpirey^ was aa 
apothecary in London j and a fellow of the 
Royal Society, He was chofen fuperinten- 
dant, and demonftrator of the Garden at 
Chelfea j an office he held for fome years be- 
fore his death, which took place in 1706. 
As Mr. DooDY lived in London^ and 
there is room to believe he was in vei-y con- 
fiderable buiinefs, his excurfions could net 
ordinarily extend far from that cityo In its 
neighbourhood, his diligence was beyond 
any other example. He ftruck out a new 
path in botany, by leading to the ftudy of 
that tribe, which comprehended the imper- 
fefl: plants, now called the Cryptogamia 
clafs. In this branch he made the moft nu- 
merous difcoveries of any man in that age, 
and in the knowledge of it flood clearly on- 
rivalledo The early editions of Ray's Synop-^ 
Jis were much amplified by his labours ^ and 
he is reprefented by Mr, Ray, as a man 
of 
