34^ C H A P T E R 52. 
no work of magnitude on the EngHjJj bota- 
ny, except the Hijhria Miifcorum, in 174 1, 
took place for many years ; not that there 
were wanting feveral individuals, who were 
eminent for their knowledge of indigenous 
botany, and zealous in propagating it : as 
inftances, I refer to the names of Watson, 
Collin SON, Miller, and Blacks tone. 
The arrival however of Linn^us in E;?p-- 
land^ and the confequent promulgation of 
his method, excited that curiofity which 
novelty will ever attrad:, and, although his 
fyftem might be but little relilhed at the 
inftant, by the E?7glip naturalifts in gene- 
ral, there were yet a few into whofe minds 
his doftrines filently infmuated' themfelves, 
and gained approbation. 
In the year 1737, the next after Lin- 
NJEUS left Englandy he publifhed the Ge- 
nera Plant arum y which compleatly un- 
folded the fexual fyftem, aa far as related to 
claiTical and generical characters ; and in 
tlie fame year exemplified it in the fpecies, 
by the Flora Lapponica, and the Hortus 
Criffortianus. At the fame time, anxious 
as it fhould feem above all, to gain the ap- 
probation 
