INTRODUCTION, 
T H E following Calendar was extradled chiefly 
from Theophraftus’s Hiftory of plants, and 
put together in the belt manner i was able from 
imperfedt materials* Any one who looks into the 
original, will fee that accuracy ought not to be ex- 
pected ; the manner of marking the times being 
often very indeterminate. 
I am fenfible that objections may be m#de to 
many parts of this Calendar, but i thought it not 
worth while to give my reafons for what i have 
done, and thereby load a piece of mere curiofity 
with pompous quotations. 
It has always feemed extraordinary to me, that 
when difciples of Linnaeus have been fent into fo 
many parts of the world, in order to make dif- 
coveries in natural hiftory, viz. Afia, Penfylvania, 
Lapland, JEgypt, Faleftine, Malabar, Surat, 
China, Java, Spain, America, Gotland, Italy, 
Apulia, Surinam, and St. Euftatia, that Greece 
fhould have been overlooked. It is true, Monfieur 
Tournefort was fent into the Levant by Lewis the 
Fourteenth to fearch for plants, and fpent forne 
years there ; it is alfo as true, that he had ail the 
knowledge and zeal necefiary for fuch a commif- 
jflon ^ but the country was too extenflye for one 
man to examine thoroughly in that fpace of time. 
He rambled over moft of the Greek iflands, Ar- 
menia, and other parts of Afia ; and though he 
enriched the royal gardens with many new plants, 
yet feveral muft have efcaped him for want of time, 
or a proper feafon. 
It were to be wiflied, therefore, that fome per- 
fons properly qualified, might be fent to Greece, 
and be enjoyned to make Attica, particularly, 
their place of, refidence for a year at lead. This 
might furnifh a Flora and Fauna Attica, that 
Y would 
