ig^ CHAPTER 42, 
gretted by the poor, to whom he had been, 
both as a man, and as a phyfician, a kind 
benefaftor. 
It does not appear that Dr.TnRELKELD 
pubH£hed any other work than the follow- 
ing, though he meditated a general hiflory 
of plants : 
Synopsis Stirpium Hibernica-. 
RUM, alphabetic e difpofitariimi Jive, Co?n-^ 
mentatio de Plant is indigenisy praferti^n 
Diihlinenjihus injlitnta. Being a fhort 
Treatife of Native Plants, efpecially fuch 
as grow fpontaneoufly in the vicinity of 
Dublin ^ with their Latin y Engli/h^ and 
*^ IriJJj Names, and an Abridgment of their 
Virtues ; with feveral new Difcoveries. 
With an Appendix of Obfervations made 
*^.upon Plants, by Dr. Molyneux, Phy- 
fician to the State in Ireland. The firfc 
Effay of the Kind in the Kingdom of 
Ireland. ^^^S^jrd' Caleb Threlkeld, 
«^ M.D. Dublin, 1727." 8°. pp. 262. 
The author, after a dedication to the 
Archblfliop of Armagh, and a preface, 
which, though written in a quaint ftile, 
prQV^3 him to have been a man of fome 
erudition 
