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Absynthium arborescens ' July 3 '. 



„ insipidum et inodoratum, ' a very pretty plant, very like common 



wormwood, July 3 '. 

 A pretty hedge of Spanish broom. 



In 1667 we again get news of the garden through Merrett who 

 added five of Morgan's plant records to the Vegetabilia in his 

 British Pinax. 



Malva arborea marina nostras. Lavatera arborea L. 



' Mr. Morgan received it from the Isle of Wight.' 

 Plantago aquatica major muricata. 



* In a small pond betwixt Clapham and South Lambeth-Common. Mr. 

 Morgan.' 

 Primula veris Polyanthos. 



' In great Woolver Wood in Warwickshire, Mr. Morgan, qui transtulit in 

 hortum suum instructissimum Westmonasteriensem.' 

 Fungus campani formis, niger, parvus multa semina plana in se continens. 

 ' Mr. Morgan's Garden Westminster, call'd in .Wostershire, Corti bells, 

 where it grows plentifully.' 

 Fungus rotundus superne concavus et translucidus coloris succini. 

 ' In Mr. Morgans garden, et alter coccinei coloris, in St. James's Park in 

 the Winter time on old decayed Trees.' 



Edward Morgan's Hortus Siccus} comprising some two thousand 

 dried plants, is contained in three large folio volumes of about 

 160 leaves each, now preserved in the Bodleian Library. The 

 specimens give us a very complete illustration of the plants, which 

 were probably grown in his Westminster garden in 1672, when the 

 collection is believed to have been begun. At least two of Morgan's 

 garden plants found their way into the Morisonian Herbarium at 

 Oxford. One is the Basil-leaved Red Dead Nettle {Lamiuni 

 piirpiireitm L. var. ocyniifoliiwi Boulger), and the other is the 

 Phlomis purpurea L. mentioned above. His name is also associated 

 with ' Chamaecyse Virginianus E Morgan ' {Euphorbia maculata L.) ^ 



In 1676 the plants were removed from Westminster to the newly 

 founded garden of the Apothecaries Company at Chelsea ; and 

 in 1677, 'Mr. Morgan, the gardener, asked for increased "con- 

 sideration " for keeping the garden and for his plants '. 



The exact site of Morgan's garden is not known. It appears' 

 to me that it may have been the same as the one by which 

 Ralph Tuggy, the correspondent of Johnson, had previously made 

 his name as a famous grower of pinks, carnations, and auriculas. 

 Bobart referred to him as ' Tuggie in Westminster, beyond ye 



' Noticed on p. 308. I am not quite convinced that Edward Morgan of 

 Bodesclen is the same person as Edward Morgan of Westminster. 

 ^ Vines & Druce, Morisonian Herbarium. 



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