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of their block of the Tradescant portrait. Mr. J. Murray 

 has lent blocks of Lobel and Parkinson. Miss Lacell 

 permitted me to look over Goodyer's house in Petersfield 

 and Mr. C. Branfill Russell pointed out the vestiges of 

 Coys's house and garden. The design of a partridge with 

 a good ear of wheat in its bill, which is impressed on the 

 binding of this volume, is the crest of Mr. Edward Goodyear, 

 who has kindly lent the stamps with which all the books 

 bequeathed to Magdalen College by his kinsman have been 

 marked. 



I have derived much advantage from the printed works 

 of my predecessors, Canon Vaughan the 'discoverer', 

 Miss Wotton the ' pioneer ', and Mr. Druce the ' producer ' 

 of the forgotten Hampshire botanist of the Seventeenth 

 Century. On certain doubtful points I have had the 

 advantage of the experience of Dr. Church, and in the 

 reading of difficult passages, of Messrs. Salter, Driver, 

 Craster, and Gambier-Parry. 



My grateful acknowledgements are due to my friends 

 Sir David Prain, Professor Keeble, the officers of the 

 Botanical Department of the British Museum, Dr. Rendel 

 and Mr. James Britten ; Dr. Stapf of the Kev/ Herbarium, 

 and especially Dr. Daydon Jackson, the biographer of 

 Gerard and Turner. To all I must express my thanks for 

 much valuable assistance. I have also to thank my wife 

 for sacrificing much time in the labour of revising both 

 manuscript and proofs. 



R. T. GUNTHER. 



Magdalen College. 

 February 1922. 



