Primary tabs
Transcription
[Page 3]
is graduated to ye height of ye Diameter.
Your very Obed Servt
Patk Browne
S
As I did not See that ye H. Haly Hutchison had not minded his promise to you altho I Sent him a Copy of my Catalogue of Such Vegetables as I had, myself, observed Every where about me, or observed to be ex marked by our Irish Writers, I undertook to give Rays Synopsis a Linnean, dress, or to Digest the plants mentioned in that work & range them according to ye Linnæan System. I had done So Sometime past, But not meeting with a Dillenia wh I found impracticable to obtain Here untill lately Lord Lucan brought me one; I could not with that accuracy, fix the age & year therefore laid it aside. I have now again taken [indecipherable] remarked Every plant, & put an, E, as a mark to those purely [indecipherable], J, to those that are found in Ireland & not mentioned by Ray. EJ to Such as grow in both places. So to a few peculiar to Scotland, and S.E. to such fucus & as are found in ye English Sea . Thro' ye whole I have given ye virtues & uses of Such as were well authenticated from good Authors, & a Catalogue of ye Diseases they were used in, with a Latin, English & Irish Index. All under the Title of Herbarium britanicum & Hibernicum.
I Shall Soon Send it to Dublin & if a Subscription can be got to defray ye Expence of ye publication I will get it published, if not, I will Conseign it to Some Library either publick or private, But would Wish on your Opinion & advice over ye Whole, sure to follow it. I remain with Every respect
Sir
your very Obedt & humble Servt
Patk. Browne