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Morgan of Westminster. His notes for planning his work, such as 

 ' Remember ye English names to bee last placed ', 'Remember to 

 give ye proper name in Latin of ye place where each plant 

 flourisheth ', &c., have the appearance of being the advice of some 

 botanical friend of experience. 



The following extract gives an idea of his controversial style 

 of writing : 



Anchusa Alcibiadion "hyxncra. Fucus herba. Onocleia. 

 Buglossa Hispanica, Red Alkanet, crescit isola Thanet. 



t Ger. ema. : I doubt whether our author found any of these in the 

 place here set downe, for I have sought it but failed of finding ; yet if he 

 found any it was only the first described, for I think the other three are 

 strangers. 



X Our Johnson uses not his usuall charges for heere hee gooes about 

 to confute with a 'for-I-thinke ', and seconds it with as good an argument 

 from an Hypothesis (if hee found any, it was onely ye first), and why not as 

 well ye other three, since hee confesses afterwards in both his Catalogues 

 ye Anchusa minor, ye 3^'^ of these, to bee our countrey plant. 



Anchusa lutea. Yellow Alkanet. 



[How MS. in Johnson's Desc. Ititi. Cant. 1632, f. 6 v.] 



At the end of the volume are the following memoranda, but so 

 dreadfully scored over as to be almost illegible : 



Qu. whether some plants which are given by Johnson in his Itineraries to 



bee no7i descript., are not described by Parkinson ? 

 Putt him nondes nere ye additionated plants and ye and see whether 



they be contained (?) in Mr. Holybyn's Catalogue. 



montanum sylvestre Anglicum ut agagua CI 



Remember ye English names to bee last placed. Consult how many plants 



wee have added in our treatise by telling ye old, ye remainder, ij ye 



number. 

 Mr. Holloway hath Stonhous papers manuscript. 

 To all Johnsons new plants, put Jonh. MS. 

 Remember to ye plants to put their titles, as D"". Bowie, M>". M, and So 



every man's name to his plant. 

 Remember to give ye proper name in Latin of ye place where each plant 



flourisheth, and to bee carefuU to f . . . . 

 Review ye spelling of names of Townes by Cambden's Brittan : 



vid. 2 Erifife. 



[l. Wulwich] .... Kent 

 [2. Eryth]^ .... Oxfords 



* In Johnson's writing. 



Review both ye Herballs againe and take all. Remember to insert againe 

 Apium sylvestre. See whether you putt downe ye Aristolochia, . . . 



Anonis you must adde to Anonis 3 more Auricula tnuris repens 



. . . Auricula see w'^^ of them growe wild. Birds'" eyes, see them — none 

 wilde. 



