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Book by themfelves, without flaying for the reprinting of 
the former Book. 
Odr Author had made a confiderable Progrefs in his 
defiga , when he received advice that Monfieur Tourne- 
fort Was, by the French Kings Order, gone into Greece 
and the adjacent lflands, in fearch of Plants, el'peciaTly 
thofe of Dhf, corides 5 this occafioned him to (top 
the profecution of his Work for feme years, in hopes 
that great and accurate Botanift would upon his return 
gratifie the Curious with his Difcoveries of the true and 
genuine Plants of the Ancient Grecians, which had per- 
plext the Herbarifts of our late Ages. 
In this Supplement our Author took care to fee the 
Materia Medico. of Diofcoridcs in a clear light 5, and for 
that end confulted all the Authors that he* could meet 
with upon that fubjeef, keeping as dole as he could to 
his Text, in which he chiefly adhered to the Tranflation 
and Commentary of Matthiolm. And becanfe in this 
performance he travelled in an untrodden path , 
knowing of no precedent in any Language, he there- 
fore confulted both the Dead and Living, ( i. e ) not 
only Books, but many Perfc ns of Ingenuity and Learn- 
ing. The nature of the Work requiring the Virtues of 
each Simple to be annext, and the Tflgn of the Book 
requiring Brevity, he cbofe to tranferibe them from Au- 
thors, which had already contraded to his hand 5 but at 
the fame time, to avoid the Imputation of ¥ldgurifm> he 
at the end of every Tranfcription inferred the Name of 
the refpedive Author : Nor did he think it any diferedit. 
to him, that he had the afliftance of othy . . but rather a 
Glory, and therefore doth throughout the Work acknow- 
ledge, the Perfons be h->-> ed vice from. 
This Book being on •.» Supple rent to a former Work, 
as i faid before, is div od accord/ <g to that merh an d 
there forel need not here to repeat it, but As S'. ■ • > . 
