of 0 XFO %p^S tiI%E. 
CHAP. VL 
Of "Plants. 
E X T Inanimate things, I pjroceed to fucti as have Life % 
amongft which , firft of thofe that hold the loweft 
place, that exercife the moil univerfal^ and therefore in- 
ferior Faculties, fuch as Herbs^ Shrubs^ TretSj all which are con- 
tained under the general name of Plants', But of thefe I intend 
notacompicat Catalogue (that being a fubjed of it felf large e- 
nough for a Volume') but only a fl-jort account, 
1 . Of the Indigenous Plants of the County^ which yet either 
fi . Are not defcribed by any Author that we know 
of, or 
2. Have not been noted by the ingenious Mr. 'B.ay^ 
in his excellent C^/^/r?gwe, to be of Englifi 
\ tural growth ; or 
3. Have indeed been noted, which yet remaining 
dubious, either as to the certainty of their de- 
fcription, oxf^ecifical difference^ are cleared in this 
^_ County. 
2. of the extraordinary accidents of well known Plants, 
I 3. Of the unufual Plants now cultivated in the Fields, un- 
I der which head fomwhat of the Husbandry of the 
[_ Country. 
according to which method I (liall treat of all the three foremen- 
tioned Species of Plants ; viz. Herbs ^ Shrubs^ Trees^ fo far forth 
as each of them will come up to it. And firft, of thofe ftiled 
herbaceous Plants. 
2. By which 1 underftand all and only thofe that are made up 
of 2ifucculent zn&carnows fubftance, that never in any part will 
htcomc lignou^^ (or hardly any of them retain it all winter) as 
■Shrubs and Jre^^do : of which thofe that are indigenou6.^^nd not 
defcribed by any Author that we know of, are thefe that follow. 
5, Viola 
