PREFACE. 
vf which are: ift, *The fpecies of Fumana are placed 
with the papilionaceous tribe ; 2d, the Plantains and 
Spurges, amongft the plants having monopet alous flowers 
and dry feed-vejfels ; 3d, Lyfimachia filiquofa, Pa- 
paver corniculata, Chelidonium majus, and Balfamine, 
will he found amongji the Jiliquous, or poded plants^ 
with tetrapetalous flowers ; 4th, Luteola, with the 
vafculiferous, tetrapetalous and, 5th, Refeda, or 
Bafe Rocket, amongft the vafculiferous plants, with 
hempetalous flowers. 
As it may be ferviceable to know the places where 
plants, that are not very common, have been founds 
it was thought proper, not only to preferve thofe men-' 
tioned in Mr Ray’j Synopfis, but to add fever al more-, 
being partly fuch as I met with in an authentick ma- 
nufcript, of the late Mr Lawfon, to which I have 
affixed his Name *, and partly fuch as I have had op- 
portunity to obferve myfelf, which are diftinguijhed 
by this mark f : ^e officinal and dilpenfatory plants 
have an afterijk prefix^ d, and cheir virtues are generally 
tranf crib ed from ilfr Miller ’j Botanicum Officinale. 
nat this Synopsis might be more compleat, 
J have not fcrupled to collebl the char abler s and defcrip- 
tions from the heft Modern Authors : And as I 
have had frequent opportunities of examining moft of 
the plants my felf, I have correbled fome errors, and 
fupplied many defebls in thofe authors. The reader will 
obferve that I have entirely omitted the Fungi, Mol^ 
fes, Graffes, andl^x^t^\ which was to avoid raiftng 
the price of this volume too high, by enlarging the bulk 
of it too much : I chofe therefore to make my firft 
publick ejfay with fame diffidence, that in cafe my per- 
formance Jhould not give the expelled fatisfablion, I 
might, however, attonefor my fault, by moderating the 
expence \ defigning, if this meets with a better fate, 
and finds acceptance with the publick, to throw into 
another volume what is now left out of this. 
