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choicest Flowers and Plants. exquisitely bound in vellum, by Mr. 
Alex; Marshall.” 
It is interesting to note that the catalog of Tradescant’s garden, 
occupying pages 73-178 of the book, and written one hundred 
years before the publication of Linnaeus’s Species Plantarum, 
contains numerous binomial names. This is only another of the 
numerous instances showing that, while the method of binomial 
nomenclature was systematized and brought into general use by 
Linnaeus, it did not originate with him. As is well known, the 
binomial names of plants developed gradually by a progressive 
abbreviation of descriptive Latin phrases following the name of 
the genus. Illustrations of this, showing various degrees of abbre- 
viation, are found in the Musaeum. Thus, for example, we find 
(p. 136) “Lupinus caeruleus latifolius, medius angustifol: luteus” 
(yellow lupine) ; “ Lupinus albus sativus”? (white garden lupine) ; 
and the straight binomial, Lupinus Indicus (Indian lupine) ; again 
(p. 117), Geranium Indicum nocte odoratum (sweet Indian 
cranesbill), and the binomial Geranium Virginianum (Virginian 
cranesbill), and so on throughout the catalog. 
We are pleased to be able to reproduce herewith from this 
volume two portraits, and facsimiles of two pages. 
The first portrait (fig. 6) is that of John Tradescant, the 
father, engraved from the miniature by Hollar. The original 
copper plate is said by Boulger to be still preserved in the Bod- 
leian library, at Oxford University. In 1793 this portrait was 
copied by N. Smith and issued as a plate with Lysons’s Surrey, 
with Ducarel’s Appendix to the History of Lambeth, and with the 
third edition of Pennant’s London. Thomas Allen’s History of 
Lambeth (1827) contains an outline copy, and von Hamel’s Trad- 
escant der altere, published in 1847 in Russia, contains a litho- 
graphic reproduction by Malenski, 
In the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford there are three unsigned 
and undated portraits in oil of Tradescant the father; one a three 
quarter length medallion, ornamented with flowers, roots, and 
fruits; a second taken after death; and the third the miniature 
here reproduced from the Musaeum, by Wenceslaus Hollar. Ac- 
cording to Boulger, there appears to be no foundation in fact for 
the inscription on all three of these portraits, and on one of the 
