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and Richard Garth were the principal authorities in this country 

 on tropical plants in the sixteenth century. 



His copy of Caesalpimcs is in the Magdalen Library. The title- 

 page bears his signature, and in the body of the book he underlined 

 passages relating to the properties of Tobacco, p. 344, and of 

 Scorzonera^ p. 427, and added the name ' Battato ' for ' Castaneae 

 terrestres', on p. 427. The volume passed in 1598 from his son 

 Robert Garth {d. 16 13) to Dr. Lancelot Browne, the author of 

 a prefatory eulogy in Gerard's Herbal^ i>397» ^nid then to John 

 Goodyer. 



iv. William Salusburv, 1520?-! 600? 



V. Sir John Salusbury of Lleweni, 1567-1612. 



Some few years ago I had the satisfaction of finding in the 

 Library of Christ Church a copy of Gerard's Herbal, with a few 

 dated marginal notes of plants found in 1606-1608 in North Wales, 

 and with notes on the medicinal properties of others. The Herbal 

 is inscribed ' Sir John Salusbury his booke ', and the notes are 

 evidently in his own handwriting. They illustrate the manner 

 in which Gerard's work encouraged the practice of recording exact 

 plant-localities at the time when Good}'er was a boy, even in quite 

 remote parts of the country. They are not mentioned by any 

 botanical writer with whom I am acquainted, nor do the recent 

 historical notes on the flora of Denbighshire by Dallman take us 

 farther back than Waring's letter of 1772. Salusbury 's date was 

 1606, and though there is no chance of his ever being forgotten 

 as an historical character, he also deserves to be remembered by 

 compilers of county floras : moreover, unlike his cousin, William, 

 he wrote in English. He received his first education at Oxford at 

 Jesus College. 



By all accounts Sir John Salusbury of Lleweni, known as 

 'the Strong', was no ordinary man. He came of a remarkable 

 family, one member of which, William Salusbury (1520 ?-] 600 ?), 

 the first translator of the New Testament into Welsh, is stated to 

 have been the author of a Welsh Botanologia which is said to have 

 been an original work showing close observation of plant life in 

 Wales. It is po.ssiblc, however, that William's great literary reputa- 

 tion has led his biographer to overstate his botanical achievement 

 {D.N.B.). I believe the ' Welsh Botanologia ' of the D.N.B. to be 

 the Llysieulyfr McddyginiactJiol, recently (1916) edited b)' Mr. E. 

 Roberts. It is a Herbal in Welsh, a compilation of extracts from 

 Fuchs, Turner, and Dodoens translated into Welsh before 1597 by 



