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Ophioglossum vulgatum L. 



The Herbe Addertonge grovveth likewise in the lower end of Ravenscroftes 

 field. [See above.] 



Botrychiutn Limaria Sw. 



Lunaria minor is found in Cunnygree of the Right Hon. Sir John 

 Salusburys, Knight, lying betweene Botuarry [Bodfari] & Carewis, and 

 great plenty of them are found in Place y Chambers fielde lying hard by 

 Snodioge parke ^ neare Denbigh being the highest & the next field to the 

 parke on the left hand as you go to Henllan from Place y Chambers, in 

 a place of Llanywith called Ogoyr graig uppon the side of the banke 

 theare, and are found in the littel park of Denbigh in the syde of a hill. . . 

 [continuation cut in rebinding]. 



Poisonous Fungi. 



Let my advice perswade thy mynde / 



not to truste any of that kynde 



such as be takenn for the beaste 



doe proue as poisnusse as the reste. 



J.S. 

 With these notes are others concerning the medicinal properties 

 of herbs, on which Sir John Salusbury was also an authority. But 

 in none does he show his wisdom as clearly as in two lines in his 

 poem on Certaine Necessary observations for Heath, 1603, 



Apothecaries shop of drugges let not thy stomack be : 



Nor use noe phisick till thou neede, thy frende adviseth thee. 



vi. The MSS. of Mathias be L'Obel and William How. 



Among the papers which came to Magdalen College with the 

 botanical Library bequeathed by John Goodyer in 1664, were 

 some thousands of printed slips cut from Lobel's Adversaria, 1576, 

 Observationes, 1576, and I cones Stirpinvi, with the author's cor- 

 rections and MS. additions. These had evidently formed part of 

 a pasted-up copy prepared by himself for a projected work which 

 he did not live to publish, but from which How printed a selection 

 under the title, perhaps the same as the one Lobel himself would 

 have chosen, of Stirpium 1 litis trationes. 



The first question that occurs to one is, To what extent do these 

 MSS. throw light on the life and work of Lobel? 



Lobel was born in Flanders in 1538. Like d'Alechamps (1513- 

 158^), Clusius (1526-1609), Pierre Pena and Jean Bauhin (1541) 

 he studied at Montpelier under Guillaume Rondelet, who is said to 

 have taken such a liking to the serious young student, that he 



^ ' Snodiog Park ' is marked as a round enclosure between Lleweni and 

 Denbigh in old maps of the county. 



