62 HISTORY OF ESSEX BOTANY.
In 1595 he was elected a member of the Court of Assistants of
the Barber-Surgeons, and about this time he seems to have had
a house and garden in Holborn, probably near Fetter Lane, the
north side being occupied by the garden of Ely House, after-
wards Sir Christopher Hatton's. In 1596 Gerard issued a
catalogue of the plants growing in this garden, of which he
issued a second edition in 1599, both editions having been edited
in a most workmanlike manner by Mr. B. D. Jackson, to whom
I am most deeply indebted for assistance of all kinds. In 1597
Gerard became Junior Warden of the Barber-Surgeons'
Company, and issued his Herball,16 which is virtually an adapta-
tion to England of the Pemptades of Dodoens (1583). Previous
to the appearance of this Herbal there had appeared the
Stirpium Adversaria of Pena and Lobel (1570) and the Herbal,
translated from Dodoens by Henry Lyte (1578), both containing
localities ; but those of the latter work are mainly from the
Dutch original or copied from Turner, whilst none of those in
the former happen to be in Essex. Gerard's Herball contains
more than 1,800 woodcuts, nearly all of which were those used in
the Eicones Stirpium of Tabernaemontani (1590), obtained from
Frankfort for the purpose by the printer, Norton. In 1604
Gerard received a royal grant of a garden plot containing about
two acres to the east of Somerset House, Strand, but in the
following year he parted with his lease to Robert Cecil, Earl of
Salisbury. In 1608 he became Master of the Barber-Surgeons'
Company, but in February, 1612, he died and was buried in St.
Andrews', Holborn. The Herball enumerates about 75 plants
from Essex, of which two or three are escapes from cultivation,
about as many seem to be blunders, and the record of Ruscus is
taken from Turner. Of the rest some cannot be determined with
certainty, but in the first appendix to his Flora Mr. Gibson only
enumerates the following 43 species as first mentioned by
Gerard :—
Clematis vitalba. Cynoglossum montanum.
Myosurus minimus. Linaria elatine.
[Sisymbrium polyceratium.] L. spuria.
Crambe maritima. Lamium galeobdolon.
Althaea officinalis. Galeopsis ladanum.
Tilia parvifolia. Anagallis caerulea.
Hypericum audrosaemum. Glaux maritima.
Melilotus officinalis. Statice limonium.
16 John Gerard. Herball. London. 1597. fol. 449. k. 4.