SIR HANS SLOANE. 
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rivers, soil, productions, customs, trade, and 
diseases, and more particularly those of Jamaica ; 
then follows an account of his voyage in forty- 
eight pages, and the remainder of the book, 
occupying two hundred and sixty-four pages, is 
taken up with an account of the plants, of which 
he makes the following arrangement. 
Chapter 1. Of submarine plants. 
Under which head he includes Corals, & c . 
2. Of mushrooms, mosses, &c. 
3. Of ferns, or capillary plants. 
4. Of herbs with grassie leaves. 
5. Of herbs with less perfect or staminious 
(lowers. 
6. Of herbs with monopetalous flowers. 
7. Of verticillated plants. 
8. Of herbs that are leguminous, or have a 
papilionaceous flower. 
9. Of herbs whose flowers are composed of 
two or three petals or leaves. 
10. Of herbs whose flowers are composed of 
four petals or leaves. 
11. Of Vasculiferous Herbs with pentapetalous 
flowers. 
12. Of herbs which are of the kindred of 
umbelliferous plants. 
13. Of plants that are rough leaved, called 
Asperifolia. 
14. Of herbs commonly accounted to have 
many naked seeds. 
15. Of herbs that are bacciferous or pomiferous. 
