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PREFACE. 
and noble Hijlory of their different 
Genuffes and Species ; but have been 
very f paring in their Virtues , and 
wholly omitted the Ufes of many ; as 
the immortal Ray, the bejl fyflematic 
Botanijl that ever wrote in England. 
To their Natural Hijlory fome have 
added a Chymical Analyfis, on which 
they have made their Virtues depend ; 
as Dr. Herman, Lemery, and the 
great Tournefort. In Writing on 
Plants, fome have given us counterfeit 
Figures , fays Johnfon, as Mathiolus 
on Diofcorides ; and others counterfeit 
Cures , as Amatus Lufitanus ; which , 
Crato fays, were Potius fidse quam 
fads. Several have treated each only 
of one Platit, as Antonius Mufa on 
Betony ; Formius on Maidenhair ; 
Blotwitzch on the Elder-Tree ; Her- 
todt on Saffron ; Scharfius on juniper ; 
Chriftoph. Petrus on the Bleffed Thif- 
tle ; Franci two Pieces on Trefoil, 
and Wood Sorrel ; Dr. Walter Baley 
on Peppers ; M ‘ Kaile on Mace ; 
Mollenbrotius on Scurvy-Grafs ; Dr. 
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