J50 15 H A P T E R 38, 
Some manufcripts of Dr. Sherard's 
were prefented to the Royal Society by Mr, 
Ellis, in the year 1766. 
J. s H E R A R D. 
James y the brother of William Sher ard, 
was born in 1666, He pradifed phyfic as 
an apothecary in London^ and was early and 
llrongly attached to his brother's favourite 
purfuit. Having become eminent and opu- 
lent in his profeffion, he cultivated, at his 
country feat, at Eltham, in Ke?2ty one of the 
richeft gardens that England ever poffefTed. 
It was alfo the retirement of his- brother, 
the conful, after his return from Smyrna y 
and is immortalized by the pen of Dille- 
Nius, Mr. Sherard is not known as an 
author ; but his name frequently occurs in 
Ray's Synopjis^ for his difcoveries of rare 
Englijh plants ; of which he had great 
knowledge, as he is faid to have had of na- 
tural hiflory in general 5 and his zeal for 
Vervain* About the fame time, Dillenius gave the 
like appellation, in his Flora Gijfenfis^ to an EngliJJo plant 
of the Stellated clafs, in the fyftem of Ray, which retains 
its diftindtion in the Tetrandrous clafs of Linn^us. 
botany 
