Dillenius, x6^ 
confiderably above 200 other plants, whicji 
had been difcovered to be natives of Britain, 
fince the publication of the fecond edition ; 
the whole number of Britijh plants being 
about 2200, as they fland in this book. 
But here it may be obferved, that botanifts 
had not at that time fufficiently e/lablifhed 
fpecific diftindions; and thi§ number could 
not ftand the teft of the Linnc^an rules, 
which has fince redijced the number tp 
fewer than 1800. 
DiLLENius feems to h^ve divided hi§ 
time, before his eftablilliment at Oxford, 
principally between the country refidence 
of Mr. Jaiiies She;raRI>, at Eltham, in 
Kent 'y the ConfuFs houfe in town ; and 
his own lodgings, which, in the year 1728, 
were in Barking Alley, 
In the year 1727, Dr.THRELKELp pubr 
lifhed his Synopjis Stirpiun^ Hibernicarum, 
in which he had introduced fome fevere 
ftridures on Dillenius, principally level- 
led at the introdudlion of his new generical 
names. He alfo inveighs againft him for 
unnecelTarily multiplying the fpecies of 
M 3 plants, 
