Ehret. 289 
am acquainted with, were exhibited in the 
44th volume of ixiz Fhilofophic all' ranfaS ions ^ 
N° 478. for January and February 1746 ; 
by the figure of the Keratophyton fiabdli-- 
forme of Ray (Gorgonia verrucofa Lin,) 
for a papfer written by Sir Hans Sloane : 
and by two excellent figures of the Oe- 
nanthe crocata, and Cicuta virofa^ in the 
fame volume, intended to illuftrate Mn 
Watson^s obfervations on the fatal QiJa- 
lities of thofe Plants* 
Very early after his arrival in this king- 
dom, he began to paint figures of the rareft 
products of xhQ E?2g!ip gardens, for his friend 
and firfl patron Dr. Trew ^ for whom, in 
the end, he finifhed 300. Of thefe, at 
different periods, 100 were engraved, and 
publifhed in Decads^ under the following 
title : 
Plants Selects, quarum Ima- 
gines ad exemplaria naturalia Londini in 
hortis curioformn mitrita^ maHu artificiofa 
pinxit Georgiiis Dionyjius Ehret, Ger?na- 
nusy collegit nominibus notifque ilhi/iravit 
Chr, Jacob, Trevv^, M,D, Norib. in /£s in- 
cidit et vivis cojoribus reprefentavit ^g, Jac. 
Vol. it, U ^ " Flaid, 
