62 HISTORY OF ESSEX BOTANY. 



In 159 T he was elected a member of the Court of Assistants of 

 the Barber-Surgeons, and about this time lie seems to have had 

 a house and garden in Holborn, probably near Fetter Lane, the 

 north side being occupied by the garden of Ely House, after- 

 wards Sir Christopher Hatton's. In 1596 Gerard issued a 

 catalogue of the plants growing in this garden, of which he 

 issued a second edition in 1599, both editions having been edited 

 in a most workmanlike manner by Mr. B. D. Jackson, to whom 

 I am most deeply indebted for assistance of all kinds. In 1597 

 Gerard became Junior Warden ot the Barber-Surgeons' 

 Company, and issued his Herball/'' which is virtually an adapta- 

 tion to England of the Pemptades of Dodoens (1583). Previous 

 to the appearance of this Herbal there had appeared the 

 Stivpimn Adversaria of Pena and Lobel (1570) and the Herbal, 

 translated from Dodoens by Henry Lyte (1578), both containing 

 localities ; but those of the latter work are mainly from the 

 Dutch original or copied from Turner, whilst none of those in 

 the former happen to be in Essex. Gerard's Herhall contains 

 more than 1,800 woodcuts, nearly all of which were those used in 

 \.he Eicones Stir piiim oi Tahern^m.Qr].idin\\s (1590), obtained from 

 Frankfort for the purpose by the printer, Norton. In 1604 

 Gerard received a royal grant of a garden plot containing about 

 two acres to the east of Somerset House, Strand, but in the 

 following year he parted with his lease to Robert Cecil, Earl of 

 Salisbury. In 1608 he became Master of the Barber-Surgeons' 

 Company, but in February, 1612, he died and was buried in St. 

 Andrews', Holborn. The Herball enumerates about 75 plants 

 from Essex, of which two or three are escapes from cultivation, 

 about as many seem to be blunders, and the record of Rnscus is 

 taken from Turner. Of the rest some cannot be determined with 

 certainty, but in the first appendix to his Flora Mr. Gibson only 

 enumerates the following 43 species as first mentioned by 

 Gerard : — 



Clematis vitalba. Cynoglossum montannni. 



Myostirus minimus. Linaria elatine. 



[Sisymbritim polyceratium.] L. spuria. 



Crambe viaritima. Lamium galeobdolon. 



Althcea officinalis. Galeopsis ladanum. 



Tilia parvifolia. Anagallis cmulea. 



Hypericum andvosmmum. Glaux mantima. 



Melilotus offcinalis. Statice limonitim. 



16 John Gerard. Herball. London. 1597. fol. 449.k.4. 



