Bradley. 131- 
of Englafid but exotic botany was indebt- 
ed to him for an undertaking, which there 
is reafon to regret he was not enabled to 
purfue and perfedt, I mean his book 011 
Succulent Plants. As this tribe is incapa- 
ble of being advantageoufly preferved in a 
Hortus Siccus, there is no part of botany 
that calls more effentially for a feparate 
publication. His work bears the following 
title, HisTORiA Plantarum Succu- 
lENTARUM, compleBens hafce 2njeque?2tes 
Pla7vtaSy Aloen fcilicety Ficoideny Cereas, Me^ 
locardium, aliafque ejus generis quce in Horto 
ficco CGlinonpoJfunt^fecundujn Pi^ototypumpiita 
naturam in tahellis ceneis infculptas, eartm-^ 
dem Defcriptiones hue accedunt et Cultii7'a. 
1716. t. 50. It was publifhed in Decads, 
at different times, between the years 1716 
and 1727; of which only five were com- 
pleted. The whole was republiflied in 1734. 
The defcriptions are in Latin and Englifh, 
and the figures extremely v/ell done in the 
ftile of the time, it preferves its value, a<s 
being cited by Linn^us, and as containing 
fome plants not figured in any other pub- 
K 2 lication. 
