260 CHAPTER 47, 
work, the Nottinghamta Vetus et Nova, there 
occurs a lift of fome plants, difcovered by 
the author after the publication of this 
Catalogue. Thefe are principally of the 
Cryptogamous kind. Several of the more 
rare plants of the environs efcaped the ob- 
fervation of this affiduous man ; among 
which may be mentioned particularly, that 
moft virulent of all our E?2glijh produc- 
tions, the Cicufa virofa^ or, long-leaved 
Water Hemlock ; which I remember to 
have feen growing in the Leen^ near the 
Rock-holesy in Nottmgham Park. That 
the Addenda to his Catalogue " were not 
more copious may be attributed to his 
fubfequent misfortunes, which undoubtedly 
damped the ardour of his purfuit. 
Notwithftanding his early fuccefs, that 
adverfe fatality," which he himfelf alludes 
to in his *^ Letter on the Small-pox,'' ftill 
attended him. He was, unhappily, not en- 
dowed with that degree of prudence, and e- 
quanimity of temper, which are fo neceffary 
to the pradlice of phyfic ; infomuch, that 
he very early loft the little intereft which 
his charadler and fuccefs had at firft gained. 
But 
