William Aiton

“ The Supplementum Plantarum of the younger Linnæus was not published till great progress had been made in compiling this Catalogue; plants that were inserted in it before the time of that publication, will therefore frequently be found to have the same synonyms as are given in it; all that have been added since are referred to it in the same manner as others are to the works of the Father; but errors which too frequently occur in the Son's publication, are, wherever they have been discovered, corrected. ”

“ As throughout his life he has unremittingly attended to the studies of Horticulture and Botany, he may, without presumption, expect to have the fruits of his labours received with candour, by the cultivators of those valuable sciences ”

“ Whether Miller's dictionary, and especially the second volume of the edition of 1739, can be considered as sufficient authority for concluding the plants mentioned in it to have been actually cultivated in England at the time of its publication, may be a matter of doubt. Lyte's Herbal is an actual translation of Dodonæus; and Parkinson's Paradisus terrestris little better than a compilation from other books. Miller's dictionary is certainly a more original work than either of these ”