298 CHAPTER 50. 
41ft volume of the Fhilofophical Tranfac-^ 
tions. 
Soon after his admiffion into the Royal 
Society, Mr. Watson diftingiiiflied hini- 
felf as a botanift. His earheft paper on 
this fubjedl was, An Account of the ce- 
*^ leb rated Haller's 'Enumeratio Stirphim 
" Hehetice, extrafted from the Latin, and 
illuftrated with a Confpeclus of the au- 
thor's method, and with various obfer- 
*^ vations." This was printed in the 
hjophical Tranfa^ions [a). 
In the fame volume (^), and in the fuc^ 
ceeding (<:), he excited the attention of the 
curious in this way, by fome " Critical Re- 
marks on the Rev. Mr. Pickering's 
*^ Paper concerning the Seeds of Mufh- 
" rooms," which, that gentleman having 
feen a ftiort time before, confidered as a new 
difcovery^ whereas Mr. Watson fhewed, 
that they had been demon ftra ted feveral 
years prior to that period, by M. Michel i, 
in his " Nova Plantanim Genera,"" printed 
at Florence in 1729. 
[a) Vol. xlii. p. 369—80. {h) p. 599. 
(r) Vol. xliii. N«4-73. P. 31. 
But 
