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" Psendonarcissus aureus 'maximna Jlore fleno, sive Rosens 

 Tradescanti. The greatest double yellow bastard Daffodill, or lohn 

 Tnidescant his great Kose Daffodill. This Prince of Daffodils 

 belongeth primarily to lohn Tradescant, as the first founder thereof. 

 .... The first and greatest kinde, we had lirst from lohn Tradescant 

 (as I said before) whether raised from seed, or gained from beyond 

 Sea, I know not." 



On p. 141, he writes of " Moly Indicum." " It grew also with 

 lohn Tradescante at Canterbury, who sent me the head of bulbes to see, 

 and afterwards a roote, to plant it in my garden " (pp. 102, 104). 



'■'' Phalanqium Ephemeriim Vircjininmim loannis Tradescant. 

 The soon fading Spider- wort of Virginia, or Tradescant his Spider- 

 wort. This Spider-wort is of late knowledge, and for it the Christian 

 world is indebted vnto that painfull industrious searcher, and louer of 

 all natures varieties, John Tradescant (sometimes belonging to the 

 right Honourable Lord Robert Earle of Salisbury, Lord Treasurer of 

 England in his time, and then vnto the right Honourable the Lord 

 Wotton at Canterbury in Kent, and lastly vnto the late Duke of 

 Buckingham) who first receiued it of a friend, that brought it out of 

 Virginia, thinking it to bee the Silke Grasse that groweth there, and 

 hath imparted hereof, as of many other things, both to me and 

 others " (p. 152). This first record of the plant to which Ruppius gave 

 the name of Tradescantia in his Flora Jenensis (1718) is marked in 

 this copy with a { in ink. Robert Cecil (whose father. Lord Burleigh, 

 by the way, had employed Gerard) was lord of the manor of Shorne 

 near Canterbury. He died in 1612, at which date Lord Edward 

 Wotton owned Boughton Malherbe in the same neighbourhood. The 

 younger Tradescant was born at Meopham in 1608. In 1617 we 

 have a record that Tradescant paid the expense of a jDassenger to 

 Virginia under *' Captain Argall." To 1618 belongs Sir Dudley 

 Digges's voyage to Russia, which Tradescant seems to have accom- 

 panied (see Journ. Bot. 1895, 35), and in 1620 he went as a gentle- 

 man volunteer under Sir Samuel Argall against the Algerian pirates. 

 Probably the visit to Fermentera mentioned by Pulteney (Biogr. 

 Sketches, i. 176), whence he brought Trifolium steUatum L., belonged 

 to this voyage. In 1625 Parkinson entered Buckingham's service : 

 in 1627 he seems to have accompanied him to La Rochelle and Rhe, 

 whence he brought " Leucojura marinum maximum," i. e. Matthiola 

 sinuata L. (Parkinson, Theatrum, p. 624) ; and after Buckingham's 

 assassination in 1628 — the year before the publication of the Para- 

 disus — he entered the service of the Queen Henrietta Maria and 

 established his garden, and presumably his " Ark," at Lambeth. 



On p. 190, (ifrojjos of OJadiolus, Parkinson says : "lohn Trades- 

 cante assured mee, that bee saw many acres of ground in Barbary 

 spread over with them." 



On p. 346 appears the reference to Veratrum album, the " White 

 Ellebor," which gave Hamel the clue to the authorship of the MS. in 

 the Ashmolean collection describing the Russian voyage (Journ. Bot. 

 Z.c.) : — " In some parts of Russia, in that abondance, by the relation 

 of that worthy, curious, and diligent searcher and preseruer of all 

 natures rarities and varieties, my very good friend, lohn Tradescante, 



