Dr. Sherard. 147 
the Arbor Americana alatis Foliisy &cc . Pluk . 
Phytogr. t. 145. f. I. fRhus VernixlAn.) 
This obfervation is printed in the Phil. 
Tranf. N** 367. Vol. xxxi. p. 147. 
In this year he returned to the continent, 
and made the tour of Holland^ France^ and 
Italy, Whilft at Paris, he found Vail- 
LANT in a declining ftate of health ; but, 
anxious to preferve his papers from obli- 
vion. Vail L ANT had folicited Boer- 
HAAVE to purchafe, and to publifh them. 
Sherard negociated the bufinefs, and 
fpent the greatefl: part of the fummer with 
BoERHAAVE, in reducing the manufcripts 
into order. To Sherard, therefore, prin- 
cipally, the learned owe the Botanicon Pa^ 
rijienfe, which was publiflied in 1727. 
Boerhaave prefixed to this work 2. Latin 
letter, written by Dr. Sherard, giving 
an account of this tranfaftion ; which is 
alfo more fully explained in the preface. 
It was in this tour, that, being in fearch of 
plants in the Alps, he narrowly efcaped be- 
ing fhot by a peafant' for a wolf. 
On his return, he brought over with 
him the celebrated Dillenius, with 
L 2 whom 
