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p. 28. " Clematis Baetica, By Waltham Abby. The Spanish Travailers Joy."
[Probably merely an escape.]
p. 31. " Convolvulus minimus spicae folius, Ger.," from Great Dunmow,
as previously recorded by Gerard.
p. 32. " Crithmum spinosum, Matth. pastinaca marina quibusd. Thorny
Sampire, by Lee in Essex." [On this record of the now extinct Echinophora
spinosa L., Merret remarks,40 " ut Ph. 'tis not found there, but below
Feversham.'']
p. 73. " Matricaria flore bullata aurea," as previously noticed by Coys.
p. 94, " Pisa marina Anglica. . . In Essexia e regione Kantü praten-
sibus editioribus hoc Pisi syl. genus multo majus reperi." [Professedly
transcribed from Lobel's manuscript marginalia to his own "Historia Plantarum
Teutonica," i.e., probably the Kruydtboech of 1581.]
p. 95. " Plantago aquatica minor stellata, Damasomum stellatum, Lugd."
[Damasonium Alisma Miller, as in Ger. em. 418.]
And p. 129. " Viola Lunaria, Viola latifolia, Dod. Clus. Ger. Bolbonac
vulgatissima White Satten : About Horne-Church in Essex." [Lunaria biennis L.,
as in Gerard, p. 377.]
Enough has already been said as to How's publication of
Lobel's Illustrationes in order to attack Parkinson, whilst the
above shows that he is not to be credited with any new Essex
records.41
In chronological succession the next work containing Essex
records is Robert Turner's Botanologia, published in 1664. But
little is known about this writer. He was born at Holshott and
educated at the university of Cambridge.42 and between 1654 and
1664 published nine works, mostly astrological. Portraits of
him are prefixed to some of his works, and he describes himself
as "Botanologise Studiosus." The title of his herbal is
Botanologia. The Brittish Physician; or, The Nature and Verities of
English Plants; exactly describing such as grow naturally in the land,
with their several names, Greek, Latin, or English; natures, places
where they flourish, and are most proper to be gathered ; their degrees of
temperature, applications, and vertues, physical and astrological uses
treated of.
40 " Pinax," p. 31.
41 For some further particulars as to How see Pulteney, Sketches, i., pp. 169-174 and
Dict. Nat. Biog. xxviii., 102.
42 Was he the Robert Turner who graduated from St. Catherine's College as B.A. in 1661?
See Luard, Graduati Cantabrigienses.