xxviii PREFACE. 
cularly thofe relating to his profeffion as an 
apothecary, cannot fail to recommend him 
to the favor of the public. To him i like- 
wife owe the ascertaining of fome of the 
grafles, one of which, viz. the final! bent 
grafs which i had in my collection, but 
knew not where i found it, he difcovered 
to be the gramen minimum anglo-bri- 
tanum, mentioned in the indiculus plan- 
tarum dubiarum at the end of Ray's 
Synopfis. 
I muft not omit alfo on this occafion to 
acknowledge my obligation to that excel- 
lent botanift Dr. Watfon, for favoring me 
with the perufal of his collection of graffes, 
which was of no fmall fervice to me. 
But to return to the tranflation ; I faid 
that i did not pretend to have avoided all 
miftakes in relation to the names of things, 
i will now extend this farther, and own my 
fufpicions that i may have made fome in re- 
lation to other particulars, but i hope they 
are of fuch a kind only as may be looked on 
with indulgence by the learned, efpecially 
when they copfider the great variety of fob- 
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