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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
Opuscula Omnia Botanica Thoma Jounsoni, Pharmaceutice 
Societatis Londinensis Soci) :—nuperrime edita a J. S. RALPH. 
Londini ; sumptibus Guliel. Pamplin, 1847. 
This is an accurate reprint of the tracts of Dr. Thomas Johnson, 
of whom but little is now known save from his writings, and as the 
editor of the second edition of Gerard’s Herbal in 1633. He was 
killed, says Sir James E. Smith, on the authority of Wood, while 
fighting in the Royal cause in 1644. The name is commemorated 
by Mr. Brown, in the beautiful and graceful Johnsonia (J. lupulina) 
of New Holland. 
Mr. Ralph has rendered service to botanists in putting a re- 
print of these Opuscula within their reach ; though we think the 
usefulness of the work would have been increased if the modern 
names of the plants had been given in the catalogue of species. 
The first pamphlet is entitled “Iter Plantarum Investigationis 
ergo susceptum a decem Sociis, in Agrum Cantianum. Anno 
Dom. 1629. Julii 13. Ericetum Hamstedianium, sive Plan- 
tarum ibi erescentium observatio," &c. The second describes 
similar excursions and in the same localities, in 1632. The third 
is entitled * Mercurius Botanicus, sive Plantarum gratia suscepti 
itineris, Anno 1634, Descriptio. Cum earum nominibus Latinis 
et Anglicis," &e. This catalogue is alphabetically arranged and 
seems to relate to plants in the south and west of England ;—and 
is followed, fourthly, by the * Therme» Bathonicæ,” or an account 
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of the properties, use, &c., of the Bath-waters, accompanied by a 7 j* 
diagram of the city, and of the Baths as they existed in 1694: _ 
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and, lastly, we have “ Mercurii Botanici Pars altera," &c. or an UN 
account of a botanical journey into Wales. These Opuscula are — 
the result of perhaps the earliest botanical excursions on record, 
(undertaken about 200 years ago). n. g : 
