278 HOW 



Remember to insert Jonhsons (su) Author (?) nere Parkinson's .... 

 Borrowe a Coopers Dictionary. English Catalogue. 



Asarina 



Consult ye place amicorum benevolentia. 



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Send to Bobert about ye Millegratia non descr. whether to Gr. d. E. . . . 



Remember Mr Bucner to send for ye Bupleur and Caucalis. Send to 

 Dr. Browne and asist Mr 



Abroiimum non antea repertum in descript. Then each plant's place 



of and ye places you have found out, faithfully dealt all ye 



English fruites which are not described, ye pharmacutists about such 

 as Bedaguar Fungus sambucinus met of ye Parson of St. James. 

 Ubi sativus inveni vulg sativus. 



Observe, ye same letters in our printed peece as there is in ye Welsh Cata- 

 logue. Those which have . . . 



Send to Stonehouse. Consult Morgan about Orchis. Mr. Crosse. 



Reade ye Catalogue Epistle onlye .... all plants yt are to be blotted out 

 better be done on ye former Catalogue, because they are worse described 

 there. [How MS, at end of Johnson's Desc. Itin. Cant. 1632,] 



How published his Phytologia in 1650: though anonymous it 

 must at once have made his reputation as a botanist, and have 

 brought him into correspondence with other plant-lovers who sent 

 memoranda of plants which he had omitted. The names of these 

 he entered in an interleaved copy of his book which he kept care- 

 fully corrected with a view to a revised and enlarged edition. 

 Among those who gave him valuable help were Goodyer, Browne, 

 and Hunnibon,^ and he for the first time had the advantage of 

 looking through the manuscripts of Lobel and of Dr. Penny. That 

 Goodyer put his knowledge freely at the service of all true workers 

 alike, is proved by the fact that at this time he was also assisting 

 another person, believed to have been Dr. Dale, in the compilation 

 of a very similar Catalogue of British Plants. That the idea of 

 a complete British Flora was very much to the fore in Goodyer's 

 mind is proved by his communications to How (MS. i<S), by his 

 abstracts from the Phytologia (MS. ff. 33-7), by the Dale (?)-Goodyer 

 Catalogue of British Plants (MSS. S and 9), and by his Index to 

 the English plants localized in Gerard's Herbal (MS. 16). 



P'urther information concerning How's activities in the period 

 immediately following the issue of the Phytologia is contained on 

 a small scrap of paper measuring 3x4 inches, with his memoranda, 

 characteristically struck out. 



' ' Dr. How had 2 Apothecaries to help him in composing y° Phytolo^a 

 brittanica.' John Ward's Diary. Perhaps Hunnibon was one of them. 



