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present Lindlriamts Lees, to which species silvaticus bears con- 

 siderable resemblance, although by its mode of growth it belongs 

 to another of Babington's groups. 



Apart from the neighbourhood of Plymouth I have seen or 

 received this Rubm from the following places in England : — 



E. Cornwall : Between Doublebois and Liskeard ; S. Neots ; 

 near Lavethan, Blisland. 



S. Devon : Avon Valley, between S. Brent and Dartmoor ; 

 Koster Bridge, near Totnes ; Bovey Tracey ; Canonteign Down ; 

 Lustleigh. 



N. Devon : Lynton ; Herb. Rev. W. Moyle Rogers. 



S. Wilts : Landport ; E. J. Tatum ; Herb. id. 



Dorset: Gore Heath, near Wareham ; noticed here in company 

 with Dr. Focke and the Bev. W. Moyle Bogers in 1889. 



Surrey : Sheen Common ; Herb. W. P. Hiem. 



Herts: Thieves Lane, Hertford; Rev. W. H. Coleman. 



Salop : Hedge, Longwynd Hill, in plenty, 1886 ; Herb. Rev. W. 

 Moyle Rogers. 



OLD HEBBABIA. 



We take the following from an interesting paper by Mr. G. C. 

 Druce, published in the 'Pharmaceutical Journal' for January 

 last : — 



" The origin of the word herbarium, as applied to a dried collec- 

 tion, is by no means certain. It is true we frequently meet with 

 the name in the older writers, but to them it meant a book about 

 plants, and generally an illustrated book. Tournefort alluded to 

 the ' Herbarium ' of Fuchs, when he referred to his ' Historia 

 Stirpium ' ; so too the ' Herbarium ' of Mattioli did not refer to his 

 collection, but to his ' Commentary on Dioscorides.' But it is 

 evident that dried plants were sent by one botanist to another, for 

 Mattioli alludes in 1543 to plants that had been sent to him ; but 

 whether these were dried in bundles or fastened to paper is left un- 

 certain. It is probable that one of the earliest herbaria formed 

 was made by Luca Ghini, Professor of Botany at Bologna, about 

 1540. From a letter of Maranta to Mattioli it is evident that 

 Ghini sent several plants that were glued on paper and labelled to 

 Mattioli, very shortly after the publication of Mattioli's ' Commen- 

 tary ' in 1548. Ghini died in 1556. Two pupils of his, Cesalpini 

 and Aldrovandi, made herbaria ; and our own countryman, Falconer, 

 who certainly had a Hortus Siccus between 1540 and 1547, was 

 probably also taught either at Bologna or Pisa by Ghini. In Wm. 

 Turner's ' Herbal,' when referring to Glaux, he says he 'never saw 

 it in England except in Master Falconer's book, and he brought it 

 from Italy.' Amatus Lusitanus, who was at Ferrara from 1540 to 

 1547, speaks of this book of Falconer's as a singular curiosity, such 

 as he had never seen before. No traces of this book, so far as we 

 know, exist. 



"Aldrovandi, the pupil of Ghini, who died in 1605, left to the 

 University of Bologna a large quantity of curiosities, among which 



