Wilfon. 267 
with feveral Figures, By "John Wilson^ 
Newcajlle upon TyneJ' 8^ 1744? pp? 
272, 
Throughout this work, the author has 
prefixed copious characlers to each genus, 
taken, as it appears, from Ray and Tour ne- 
FORT i into many of which, in conformity 
to Ray's method, he introduces the form 
of the leaves, and the habit qf the plant. 
By this means, having added, in moft in- 
ftanceSj fhort defcriptions of the fpecies, his 
book was an ufeful pocket manual, as far 
as it extended ; for he begins with the Ca« 
pillary plants, and ends with the Bulbouji 
rooted. He fubjoins the particular places 
of the rare plants in the northern parts of 
'England^ from his own obfervations, and^ 
partly from a manufcript of Mr. Law- 
son's. His remarks on the properties and 
virtues, additional to thofe from Ray, he 
has principally extrafted from Miller's 
Botanicum OJicmakJ' 
Wilson has made fome tranfpofitions in 
the diftribution of his fubjeds in this vo* 
lume, which prove that he had attentively 
examined plants, and wajg well acquainted 
with 
