iSz CHAPTER ^g. 
yond the bounds circumfcribed in the Ca- 
talogue. This renders the book, in a great 
meafure, a Flora of the plants of Heje. 
Then follows a defcription of the ?2ew fpe- 
ties of the Catalogue* Thefe are fucceeded 
by the eftabliihment of his new genera of 
MoffeSy Fungi ^ and a variety of others, a- 
mounting to near l oo, of which fome of 
ibrmer authors are here only amended > but 
the far greater part are of his own con- 
ftrufting, and entirely new 3 and the parts 
of frudlification feparately delineated, in 16 
copper-plates. This part of his work hag 
been of great authority with fucceeding 
writers ^ and many of thefe charaSers have 
flood the teft of the Linnc^an fyftem. 
The merit of this work fixed the cha- 
ra£ler of the author, as^ a perfe(aiy fcienti- 
fic botanift, and attrafted the notif e of all ^ 
the eminent profefTors, and admirers of the 
fcience: among others, thztoi Mr. William^ 
afterwards Dr. Sherard, to whom we 
owe that Dillenius was broughi to Eng-^ 
landy and in the end fixed in the profefTor- 
{hip at Oxfords Sherard was, at that 
time, among the few who patronized and 
cultivated the fcience in England. He was 
lately 
