194 CHAPTER 42. 
Gerard Boate, a Dutch phyficlan, be- 
gan *^ Ireland's Natural Hiftory," which 
was publifhed by Samuel Hartlib in 
1652, i2\ Of this the loth, nth, and 
1 2th chapters treat on Agriculture, But 
the fecond part of the work, in which the 
author intended to have given the Vegeta- 
bles, was never publifhed ; if indeed it was 
ever written. 
There is a Mr. Za?tche Silliard, an 
apothecary of DiMhi^ mentioned by Par-. 
KiNSON, Vv^ho feems to have polTefled fome 
botanical knowledge. But the earlieft in- 
telligence that I can find of any real bota- 
nift, a native of Ireland y is of a Mr. Hea- 
TON, a divine, who lived at Dublin. I 
cannot colled any anecdotes of him ; but 
I find his name attached, as the firft difco- 
verer, to many plants in How's Pbytologia, 
and to fome in Merrett's Pinax ; and, 
from the number and rarit/ of the fubjedls 
recorded, he muft have been a perfon of 
confiderablc knowledge in his way. It 
appears from the fame authorities, that he 
had been much in England^ having pointed 
mt the natural places of many rare plants 
