270 PARKINSON'S MANUSCRIPTS 



Amivil with the Persians is a tree like to the Chesnut tree whose rootes the 

 deaper the better being tied about the neck or worne on the arme so that they 

 touch the flesh doe induce a mightye hatred for wine espetially to those that 

 are geven to love it much & be often drunck therewith. Gesner reciteth 2 espetiall 

 thinges available for that purpose, viz. a greane frog that is found often in the 

 springes of water put alive into wine & there suffocated. And an Eclosus 

 formed also in wines : this hath ben often urged so before, especially if 

 2 ounces of the blood of Gates (?) be put into 3 measures of wine. Opium also 

 is thought to performe the like cure & so be the more prone & strong to 

 venery. 



[Written by John Parkinson on the back of his letter to Mrs. Geeres. 

 MS. f. 168 v.] 



Among his other writings are Lists of Foreign plants, see 

 pp. 35H-70 ; a List of 116 plants, including many bulbs (MS. 11, 

 f. 164), grouped under numbers '36 to 69', evidently referring to 

 plates in the Anthologia magna, 1626 ; a list of 48 plants (MS. 11, 

 f. 157 V.) described by Clusius in his Appendix altera ad Rariorum 

 Plantariim Historiam, issued with the Exotica in 1605 ; two lists of 

 Evergreens,^ one headed Arbores sempervirentes fol. 44 (MS. 11, 

 f. 156), the other headed Perpetiia coma virenies variis provinciis 

 (f. 158 V.) ; and a brief note on plants used for tanning skins by 

 Mediterranean peoples. 



Parkinson was appointed Apothecary to King James and also 

 King's Herbarist. He had a garden in Long Acre, where Goodyer 

 no doubt saw the many rare plants of which he has preserved a list. 

 The following account is in a hand that appears to me to be 

 Parkinson's : if so, it may refer to an accident to the wall of his 

 garden in Long Acre in 1636. A search for the workmen's names 

 in the local parish register might settle the question. 



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* It may be noted that at a somewhat later period Sir Richard Browne, 

 writing from Paris to Sir Edward Nicholas on 5 July 1658, states that he was 

 then at work on a Catalogue of evergreenes, but had lost the help of a Mr. Keipe, 

 who had left for England. He adds ' Alaternes beare a graine like that of privet, 

 which beinge sowed comes upp and prospers without difficulty'. 



[CiiiU(fe/i Society, xxxi, p. 65, 1920.] 



