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Westminster, where he grew the first Polyanthuses, obtained from 

 Great Woolver Wood in Warwickshire, and possibly also Phlomis 

 ptirpurea, which he is stated by Aiton to have been the first to 

 introduce. His name is associated with the following British Plants 

 by How in MS. notes which must have been written between 1650 

 and 1656. He evidently knew where to find white and purple 

 Spear Thistles in London. 



Primula veris fl. pi. viridi. 



,, ,, sive Paralysis fatua. 



Malva syl: flore albo. 



[Bellis fl. herbaceo globoso non descr. (erased).] 

 Scabiosa ovilla fl. albo. 

 Carduus lanceolatus fl. alb. St. James. 

 Lychnis syl: foliis variegatis fl. albo. Qu. M. 



Carduus lanceolatus fl. alb. et fl. purp. Q. Chyrurg: for ye places of theese 

 plants growth from Morgan. 



On 10 June 1658 John Evelyn 'went to see ye Medical Garden 

 at Westminster, well stored with plants under Morgan a very 

 skilful botanist '. In 1662 the garden was visited by the Rev. John 

 Ward, who recorded in his diary ^ that Dr. Morison commended 

 ' Ned Morgan's for ye best collection of plants in England ', and the 

 admiration appears to have been mutual, for Morgan affirmed 

 Morison to be the best botanist of his age in London, and next 

 to him are 'Dr. Dale, Dr. Merit, and Mr. Goodycr'. A few of 

 Morgan's plants of special interest are noted in Ward's diary. 

 They included 



Leucojum bulbosum. 3 sorts. 



Iris persica, a very pretty Iris, ' Ye flowers open with a mouth like Snap- 

 dragon '. 



Cinara spinosa et aculeata. 



Muscus filicinus, ' winged like feme. Much of it gathered in Hamden 

 woods '. 



Gramen innatans and fluviatile. 



and P)urri (= Hurre grasse), ' as it hath a yellow spike on top '. 



1. Ilex coccigera. 



2. ,, glandifera. 



3. ,, aktae-foliis. 



4. ,, ye common. 

 Medler tree. 



Strychnos Nux vomica, ye Physic nut I . , j 

 Yellow Jessemine ) 



Zizipha, ye Bead tree. 

 Glaux maritima. 

 Cruciaia marina. 



' D'Arcy Power, TAe Oxford Physic Garden, Ann. Med. Hist, ii, p. ill. 



