6 o~ "The Life c/" Mr. RAY. 
him and the Bookfellefs, who had 
the Right of the Copy, concerning 
a Third Edition, and they, not with-, 
out Ibme ill Behaviour, flighting 
that Book, and Mr. Ray\ Improve- 
ments, and threatening to trouble 
any who Ihould dare to re-print it ; 
this, I fay, put Mr. Ray upon a bet- 
ter Projedl, which was to'publifh it 
in another and better Form, agree- 
able to the Method of Nature ; viz. 
that of a Synopjis of Englijh Vege- 
tables, fit for the Pocket, and not in 
an Alphabetical Orderj as his Cata- 
logue was. But to fatisfy the Impor- 
tunity of his Friends, he, inftead of 
his Catalogue, publifiied his Fafcicu- 
lus Stirpium Britannicarum pojl edi- 
tum C at alogum Plantar uni f This 
was publifiied in the Year 1688, and 
therein he promifed his Synopjis ; 
which he accordingly got ready be- 
fore the Year was expired j but be- 
tween 
