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ink. As the second heading " lieseved In the yeare 1630 from forrin 

 partes " occurs near the bottom of the page, presumably the plants 

 enumerated above this were received in 1629, the year in which the 

 book was published. The list begins : — " Inprimis Sittissos Amaran- 

 tinum," and the spelling of both Latin and English names is re- 

 markable ; as, for example, " The Great whyt Henuntcula single, on 

 other sort of Dubble whyt Anemone " etc. Some names liave such 

 mai'ginal notes as "from Morine," "from Mr. Kobine," "from 

 france Kobyne," and "from moonser Robyne." 



One entry is significant. It runs as follows : — 

 "from moonser Kobyne on German Rose of m''- parkinson which Is 

 Called Rosa Austrlaca flore phenissio." On my first sight of these 

 MS. lists, I thought they might be the work of Parkinson himself in 

 preparation for that second edition of the Paradisus which, appearing 

 in 1656, after his death, is stated on the title-page to have been 

 " corrected and enlarged," but does not in fact appear to have been 

 either one or the other. Beginning, as they do, immediately after 

 the first publication of the book, I thought they might well be so ; 

 and there are no known manuscripts of Parkinson extant with which 

 comparison of handwriting would have been possible. This entry, 

 however, was decisive, and I was on reading it thrown back upon the 

 conclusion that the lists are the work of Parkinson's friend the elder 

 John Tradescant. 



A little further on "Red Honnysottle " is recorded, apparently 

 also from " moonser Robyne " ; and then under 1630 " from Con- 

 stantinoble on Narciss, on Citlamen, 4 Renunttulosae," two tulips, 

 and "4 sortes of Anemones" .... " Reseved In the yeare 1631 

 from M'- Rene Morine Inprimis Renunttulus Asiatitus flore Duplice 

 luteo .... from Bruxsills 6 Hiasinthos." The first list for 1632 

 occupies more than a page and ends with " from Brussells i 6 Tuiipes " ; 

 but lis followed by another short one for the same year and by the 

 lengthy concluding one, for 1633. 



The spelling of these lists is, as will be realized from these speci- 

 mens, phonetic and illiterate. One peculiarity in it is the uniform 

 spelling of " one " as " on." There is also a remarkable initial I, so 

 adorned with complex flourishes as to lend colour to the notion that 

 the wi'iter may after all have been of Netherlandish origin. On 

 sending notes on these two points to Mr. F. Madan, Bodley's 

 Librarian, together with a tracing of a monogram signature appended 

 to a note in the body of the book in which " Eli- " and " A " seem 

 clearly discernible, I learnt from him that the two first-named pecu- 

 liarities occur in the MS. narrative of the Russian voyage attributed 

 to Tradescant (see Journ. Bot. 1895, p. 35) and that the signature is 

 almost certainly Ashmole's. 



The elder Tradescant died in August 1637. If this interesting 

 volume had retained the original fly-leaves at the beginning, they may 

 have borne evidence of the presentation of this early copy by its 

 author to his friend and contemporary the elder Tradescant, or, of 

 course, it may have been purchased ; but as bearing on the friendship 

 of these two men I have brought together all the passages in his 

 Parailisus in which Parkinson mentions Tradescant. 



