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and scientific entourage doubtless proved no small attraction to 

 Robert Boyle. 



Our author mentions the garden thrice. 

 Hedysarum aut Securidaca, Dii Pinet, p. 402. Coronilla varia, L. 



' In Crosses Garden at Oxford in 1570.' ' In Mr. Watson's booke.' 



Aethiopis, p. 557. Salvia Aet/iiopis, L. 



' In Crosses Garden at Oxford.' 

 Scorpioides, p. 639. Ornithopus scorpioides, L. 



'At Oxford in Crosses garden 1570.' 



[John] Watson's Winchester Garden, 157a. 



Six of the plant-records are associated with the name of a 

 Watson, who I think must be the John Watson (1520—84) who 

 took an M.D. degree at Oxford, and began life practising as 

 a physician. A native of Evesham, he became a Fellow of All 

 Souls in 1540. ' At length, about the time Queen Elizabeth came 

 to the throne, if not happily before, he entred into holy orders, was 

 made prebendary of Winchester, archdeacon of Surrey, and Master 

 of the Hospital of St. Cross near Winchester' (1559). In the 

 fifteenth year of Queen Elizabeth, 1572, the date of our notes, 

 he was made Dean of Winchester. He evidently kept up his early 

 interest in medicine, for in 1575 he was admitted to the degree of 

 Dr. of Physick. He became Bishop of Winchester in 1580. 



Some of the notes refer to a ' booke ' which we take to be 

 a Hortiis siccus, which may have also included wild plants. His 

 garden is likely to have been at St. Cross. 



Myrica s. Tamarix, Du Ptnet, p. 55. Tamarix gallica, L. 



'In Mr. Watson's booke and garden 1572. Of this there is said to be 

 2 kyndes, the greater bearing fruit like to the lesser oake apples or gaules, 

 the other bearing grayeish leaves without fruite.' 

 Ornithogallum, p. 207. Ornithogalum tembellatuin, L. 



' in Mr. Watson's booke.' 

 Gratiola, p. 290. Gratiola officinalis, L. 



'A kynd of the lesser Centaurie in Mr. W^atson's and S. Cross, 1570.' 

 Althaea Ibisc, p. 420. Althaea officinalis, L. 



' Mr. Watson's garden.' 

 Althaea sive Bismalva, p. 421. Malva Alcea, L. 



' Mr. Watson's garden.' 

 Centaurium maius, p. 270. Centaurea Cefitatcreiim, L. 



' In Mr. Barnaby's garden and Mr. Watson's booke.' 



James' Winchester Garden. 



Comus, p. 108. Cornus mas, L. 



' In Mr. Jeames garden at Winchester.' 



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