PREFACE. 
free Ufe of his Plantae Woodfordienfes, (without 
theAidofwhichy and Mr.YinA^oriSexcellent^Xoxz. 
Anglica, it would never have been undertaken) 
but alfo ajjijied the Author in the Profecution of it^ 
and above all, introduced him to the acquaintance 
of that accurate Botanijl, Mr, Alchorne, AJfay^ 
Majler of the Mint, whofe kind Informations and 
Cor rebi ions have been of the great eji Advantage. 
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Dhe principal Inducement for the Publication 
was to rebiify the Account given in Mr. Black- 
fton’s Specimen Botanicum, taken from Mr. 
Bateman’s M. S. Catalogue of near Two Hundred 
Plants growing about this Town, becaufe many of 
the rare ones at this time, are not to be found in 
the Places therein referred to, which have of late 
been often diligently fearched in hope of retrieving 
them, as they would have added much to this Work, 
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but in vain. 
In the Courfe of about Seventy Tears fnce that 
Catalogue was made, tnany Caufes and Accidents 
may be aj/igned for the lofs of fo me of the rare 
Plants there mentioned, yet none greater than the 
indujlrious hand of improving Hufbandry. Mr, 
Bateman might pojfibly have been mifiaken in 
others, 
