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I was forced to perform this task within the compasse of a 

 years. Now being constant to my first resolution, I here 

 haue, as time would giue me leaue, and my memorie serue, 

 made a briefe collection and addition (though without 

 method) of such as offered themselues to me ; and without 

 doubt there are sundry others which are as fitting to be 

 added as those ; and I should not haue bin wanting if time 

 had permitted me to haue entred into further consideration 

 of them. In the meane time take in good part those that I 

 haue here presented to your view." 



Johnson " seeins to have been as good a soldier as a 

 botanist, for he distinguished himself greatly in the war, 

 and became lieutenant-colonel to Sir Marmaduke Eawdon. 

 In 1642, the University of Oxford made him a Bachelor of 

 Physic, and in the next year he proceeded to M.D. He did 

 not, however, live long to practice his profession as a 

 physician, for on September 14th, 1644, during a skirmish 

 with the rebels under Colonel Richard Norton, at the siege of 

 Basing House, he received a shot in the shoulder, ' whereby 

 contracting a feaver, he died a fortnight after.' He was 

 much regretted, being, we are informed, ' no less eminent in 

 the garrison for his valour and conduct as a soldier, than 

 famous through the kingdom for his excellency as an 

 herbalist snd physician.'" 



John Parkinson.* 

 John Parkinson was born in 1567, for the inscription on 

 his portrait, published in 1629, states that he was then in 

 his sixty-second year. The place of his birth is not known, 

 but is supposed to have been somewhere in Nottingham- 

 shire. The greater part of his life was spent in London, 

 where he followed his profession of apothecary and herbalist, 

 a profession which does not appear to have been very 

 - See ' Journal of Horticulture,' June 24tb, 1875. 



