248 THE JOUltls'AL OF EOTA>'Y 



BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES. 

 LXXXI. Tkauescakt's First Garden Catalogue, 1634. 



In his article on A Sevenfeentli-centuri/ Botanist Friendship 

 ( Journ. Bot. 1918, p. 197) Mr. Boulger has published some interesting 

 details relating partly to the trees found growing in the Lambeth 

 Garden when it came into the possession of Ehas Ashmole in 1662 on 

 the death of John Tradescant the younger ; partly to plants received 

 in the years 1629 to 1633 " from forrin partes." These latter lists 

 and notes are attributed to John Tradescant the elder. 



Mr. Boulger follows the usual practice of naturalists who refer 

 to the Tradescants, in quoting the 3Insaeum Tradescantianum printed 

 in London by John Grismond and sold by Nathaniel Brooke at the 

 Angel in Cornhill in 1656, nineteen years after the death of the 

 elder Tradescant. I have therefore come to the conclusion that the 

 copy of the elder Tradescant's own catalogue which I have usually 

 consulted is a very rare if not unique psssession. It was bequeathed 

 by John Goodyer^ to Magdalen College and is duly mentioned in the 

 printed Catalogue of the Library (1862). I know of no other copy. 

 The title is : 



" plantar YM 



IN HORTO 



lOHANNEM TjIADE- 



SCANTI nascentium 

 Catalo^rus 



NOMINA SOLTMMODO 



Soils vuhjata exlii- 

 bens. Anno 1634 " 



At the head of the first page (sig. A 2), the title is repeated 

 with the author s Christian name in a more correct case : — Iohannts. 

 Then follows a list of some 750 species and varieties of plants 

 distino-uished by theii' Latin names in alphabetical order. A Cata- 

 loo-ue of Fruits fills the last five pages. Altogether the lists are much 

 shorter than those in the 1656 edition of tlie Catalogue, and a com- 

 parison of the two would show what plants might have been introduced 

 in the intervening period. 



The 1634 lists include the Narcissus Boseus maximus flo. pleno 

 Tradescanti and the Blialangium Vircjiniamnn Tradescanti and 

 apparently all the other plants mentioned by Mr. Boulger. The 

 spelling is usually good, showing that if Mr. Boulger's quotations are 

 a fair indication of Tradescant's illiteracy, some better scholar must 

 have had a hand in the construction of the Catalogue and in the 

 reading- of the i)roofs. I hope to reprint the comj^lete list shortly. 



" R. T. GUNTHER. 



