NOTES ON" ORCHIS MASCULA AND O. MORIO 197 



Orchis laxiflora were fairly numerous, but white ones were much 

 rarer. Some of the morio had a conspicuous white central area on 

 the lip, but, judging from the number of stigmas fei"tilized, these 

 seemed to be less attractive than the ordinary form. 



A SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY BOTANIST FRIENDSHIP. 



Bt G. S. Boulgeb, F.L.S. 



Messrs. Davis and Orioli, the antiquarian booksellers of Museum 

 Street, last year submitted to me a most interesting copy of Par- 

 kinson's Paradisus which has now found a suitable home with 

 the other Tradescants in the Bodleian Library. It is a nearly perfect 

 example of the first edition which was published in 1629, when the 

 author (of whom a portrait by C. Switzer appears facing p. 1) was in 

 his 62nd year. A few pages are worn or slightly torn at the margin. 

 The calf binding is old, but apparently not original, and is some- 

 what misleadingly labelled on the back " Parkinson's Herbal," a 

 title belonging rather to his Theatrum Botanicum, which he did 

 not publish until 1640, when he was seventy-two. 



The interest of this book, however, consists in the MS. matter 

 which it contains. Whilst there is only a single blank sheet (2 pages) 

 as end-paper at the beginning of the volume, there are thirteen 

 (26 pp.) at the end, besides the remains of one torn out. These seem 

 to be of paper contemporary with the imprint, and bear a small 

 water-mark of a bunch of grapes. The first of these pages, the 

 seventh, and the last seventeen remain blank ; but the second, third, 

 fourth, fifth, and half the sixth contain MS. lists of plants headed 

 " Reseved since the Impression of this Booke " ; and on the eighth 

 and ninth pages, in another hand, is a MS. list headed " Trees found 

 in M''- Tradescants Ground when it came into my possession." This 

 latter list is almost certainly in Elias Ashmole's handwriting ; and, 

 as he took possession of the Tradescant's garden at South Lambeth 

 on the death of John Ti-adescant the younger in 1662, it may be in- 

 teresting to print the list, with the modern equivalents of the names, 

 for comparison with that given by Sir William Watson (Phil. Trans, 

 xlvi. 160 ) of those remaining in 1749. The thirty trees enumerated 

 are as follows : — 



Platinus orientalis vei'us {Plafanns orien falls L.). 



Platinus occidentalis, aut Virginensis {Flatamis occidenta- 

 lish.). 



Arbor siliquosa Virginensis spinosa, Locus nostratibus dicta 

 (^Bobinia Fscndacacia L.). 



Cerasus racemosa qubida [quibusdam] Padus Theophrasti dicta 

 (^Prnnus Padus L.). 



Periclymenum erectum flore rubro (^Lonicera alpigena L.). 



Nux Vesicaria, Altera Virginensis (Sfaplij/lea h'ifolia L.). 



Euonymus Theophrasti {J£uony)iius curojjwus L.). 



