Sosseljm as a Botanist. 
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his arrangement is alfo creditable to his botanical knowl- 
edge. By this arrangement, his collections are diftin- 
guifhed into — 
1. " Such plants as are common with us in England." 
2. " Such plants as are proper to the country." 
3. " Such plants as are proper to the country, and have no name." 
4. " Such plants as have sprung up since the English planted and kept 
cattle in New England." 
The laft of thefe divifions is the moft valuable part of 
Joffelyn's account, as it affords the only teftimony that 
there is to the firft- notice among us of a number of now 
naturalized weeds, which it is an interefting queftion to 
feparate from the more important clafs of plants truly 
indigenous in, and common to, both hemifpheres; and the 
author's treatment of the latter — as indeed of the other 
two lifts mentioned above — fhows that he was competent, 
in a meafure, to reckon the former. This furnifhes a date, 
and an early one; and there is no other till 1785, when 
Dr. Manaffeh Cutler's Memoir, to be fpoken of, enables us 
to limit the appearance of fome other fpecies not men- 
tioned by Joffelyn. 
There is no work of any fize or importance on New- 
England plants, after Joffelyn, for the whole century which 
followed. We were not, indeed, without men in diftin- 
guifhed connection with the European fcientific world. 
The moft eminent New-England family gained honors in 
fcience, as well as in the conduct of affairs. John Win- 
throp the younger, eldeft fon of the firft Governor of 
Maffachufetts, — and the " heir," fays Savage, " of all his 
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