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accomplished botanist Avhose contributions to science are better 

 remembered in the works of Clusius and other foreign botanists than 

 in his own country " — Mr. Gunther brings together an interesting 

 account. Acxjording to Lobel (Adv. ii. 459), Garth was the first to 

 find Pohjpogon monsjJeh'ensis, wliich grew near his house, Drayton 

 Manor, near Portsmouth ; " Lobel appears to have visited [the] 

 garden after Garth's death " in 1597, and to have found near it not 

 only " Helxine Cissampelos altera minima Anglo-Britannica " — this 

 is interpreted as " a variety of Bindweed," but clearly a small form of 

 Polyqomim Convolvulus is intended — but also Atriplex lifforalis 

 (Illust, 85), which Mr. Gunther does not mention, whereof this 

 is the earliest British record. 



Mr. Gunther (p. 238) writes at some length about William 

 Salusbur}^ about whom something was said in this Journal for 1917 

 (p. 259) in the course of reviewing the re]n'int by Mr. Stanton 

 Koberts of the Welsh herbal attributed to him. There seems little 

 doubt as to the identity of this with the " Welsh Botanologia " 

 referred to in the T). N. B. account of William Salusbur}^ — the chain 

 of evidence adduced in the review indicated seems sufficiently com- 

 plete. Another member of the same famity. Sir John Salusbur}^ 

 finds no place in D. N. B., but Mr. Gunther shows that on various 

 grounds he is entitled to appear therein. A copy of Gerard found in 

 the Library of Chri.st Church contains marginal notes in Sir John's 

 hand on the medicinal properties of some plants, with the localities 

 of others found bv him in North Wales in 1006-8 ; these Mr. Gunther 

 enumerates, to tlie number of 29 ; the list ends Avith the following 

 caution relating to fungi : — 



" Let my advice perswade th}^ m^^nde 

 not to truste any of that kynde, 

 such as be taken n for tiie beaste [best] 

 doe prove as poisnusse as the reste." 



The reader may be referred for further information concerning 

 Sir John to the account of his garden on pp. 300-8, to which no 

 cross-reference is made and which does not appear in the Index. 



The garden continued to flourish long after [Sir John's] death ; 

 Mr. Gunther prints a letter referring to it (p. 308) contained in the 

 Hortus Siccus of Edward Morgan in the Bodleian Library (Ashm. 

 MS. 1797, and addressed to him at Bodesclen. Mr. Gunther is not 

 quite convinced that this Edward Morgan is identical with the 

 Edward Morgan of Avhose garden at Westminster he gives an account. 

 The exact site of this garden, as he sa3^s, is not known, and the late 

 Mr. H. B. Wheatle}^ a leading authorit}" on the history of London, 

 Avas not able to place it. In the Sloane Herbarium are three volumes 

 of " Plants gathered by Mr. Morgan or Mr. Pusholm at the jjhysick 

 garden at Westminster," this title being followed by a note on the 

 condition of the garden at the time of writing, transcribed by 

 Matthew^ Maty (1718-1770) — successively Keeper and Principal 

 Librarian of the British Museum — from the oi'iginal catalogue of the 

 Herbarium, which it has proved impossible to trace. 



We regret that we are unable to do more than mention the "Early 



