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CHAP. 39. 
Dillenius — a native of Germany — educated at 
Git^zTv — Member of the Academia Naturas 
Curioforum — Account of his memoirs in the 
Mifcellanea Curiofa : on American 'plants na* 
turalized in Europe : coffee^ &c, — His Cata- 
logus Giflenfis — An account of that hook — His 
numerous dijcoveries in the Cryptogamia clajs 
— Dillenius brought into England by Conful 
Sherard — Publijhes a new and greatly enlarged 
edition i?/' Ray's Synopfis — Employed in carrj* 
ing on Sherard's Pinax. 
DILLENIUS. 
AFTER Sherard, I am led in 
chronological courfe, as well as by 
other affociations, to a characfler of the 
higheft worth in botanical Icience. That 
harmony of tafte, and co-operation of de- 
fign, which firft connefted Sherard and 
Dillenius, hath infeparably united their 
names, as long as their works fliall endure. 
Dillenius, though not an Englijhman 
born, is gratefully naturahzed by a nation, 
to 
