274 CHAPTER 48* 
The Specimen Botanicum of Mr. 
Blackstone, I conlider as the laft book 
pubHfhed in England, on the indigenous 
botany, before the fyftem of Linn^us had 
gained the afcendancy over that of Ray : 
nor, unlefs it were within my plan to re- 
count fingle papers, occafionally printed in 
the Fhilofophical TranfaBionsy or in other 
colledlions, am I able to mention any work 
of importance on exotic botany, before this 
revolution took place, which was not built 
upon, or at leaft did not exhibit fome prin- 
ciples of, the new iyftem. Whilft this 
event was taking place, which cannot be 
computed at fewer than twenty years, com- 
mencing from 1740, there were, however, 
feveral eminent and learned men, who, al- 
though they did not diftinguifh themfelves 
by publiihing feparate tradls on the fcience, 
were occafionally improving it, by their 
of 1767, but changed the name to Chlora^ an appellation 
it had received from Reneaulme, in his Specimen 
Hijlorice Plantarum^ puWiftied in 161 1. It fhould feem, 
that the difcovery of the true place of this plant in the 
fyllem, entitled Mr. Hudson to the difpenfation of the 
name, or at leaft that Blackstone fhould have beea^ 
perpetuated in the trivial epithet, 
various 
