of his physician, and that of professor royal of botany, with a pension of 200l. per annum. The Preludium Botanicum, which he published in 1669, procured him so much reputation, that the university of Oxford invited him to the professorship of botany in 1669; which he accepted, and acquitted himself in it with great ability. He died at London in 1683, aged 63.

He published a second and third part of his History of Plants, in 2 vols. folio; with this title, Plantarum Historia Oxoniensis Universalis. The first part of this excellent work has not been printed; and it is not known what has become of it.

a genus of plants belonging to the monadelphia class, and in the natural method ranking under the 25th order, Putanaceae. See Botany Index.