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third part at the same place in 1566. The three parts — 

 collected together into one volume, with some additions and 

 alterations — were published in 1508, dedicated to Queen 

 Elizabeth. In this work upwards of three hundred species 

 are given as natives of England. 



Anthony Ascham. 



The Herbal of Anthon}^ Ascham is thus mentioned by 

 Pulteney :* — 



" Anthony Ascham, a priest, and vicar of Burnishton, 

 in Yorkshire, to which he was preferred by Edward VI. , 

 after a liberal education, which, it might have been 

 expected, w^ould have secured him from such delusion, 

 gave himself up to the study of astrology, on which subject 

 he published several tracts. He wrote also ' On the Leap- 

 Year ; ' and the following : ' A Lyttel Herbal of the properties 

 of Herbs; newly amended and corrected, with certain 

 additions at the end of the boke ; declaryng what herbs 

 have influence of certain starres and constellations, whereby 

 may be chosen the best and most lucky times and days of 

 their ministration, which is daily appointed in the Almanack. 

 Made and gathered in the year M.D.L., xii. Feb., by Anthonye 

 Ascham, Physician. Lond. 1550. 12°.'" 



Keixbert Dodoens. 



Johnson, in his edition of Gerard's Herbal, gives the 

 following account of the work of Dodonseus : — 



" Remhertus Dodonceus, a Physician, born at Mechlin, 

 in. Brabant, about this time, began to write of Plants. 

 He first set forth an history in Dutch, which by Clusius 

 was turned into French, with some additions. An. 1560. 



'■'' ' Historical and Biographical Sketches of the Progress of Botany 

 in England, from its Origin to the Introduction of the Linnsean 

 System.' By Eichard Piilteney, M.D., F.E.S. 1790. 



