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THE 
PREFACE. 
I N the following Abftrad from 
Geoffrey $ Treatife on the Materia 
Medica, I have given, an Account of 
fuch Exoticks or foreign Vegetables as 
are contained in the new Catalogue of 
the College, and ufually preferibed in 
Medicines. 
Among foreign Vegetables I have 
ranked, not only thofe that are im- 
ported to us from Abroad, but fome 
alfo that are produced in great Plenty 
in England ; which notwithftanding, 
as they grow in other Countries fpon- 
tameoufly, and here by Culture only, 
are not to be accounted Natives of this 
Climate. 
In treating of thefe the Order ob- 
ferved is conformable to the Plan laid 
down at the Beginning of the Book ; 
A 2 whereby 
