MORISON 355 



who in the year of the publication of the Phytologia had been 

 appointed Curator of the Royal Botanic Garden at Blois.^ 



A chance presentation to Charles II in February 1660 resulted 

 in his being offered an appointment as Regius Professor of Botany 

 in London, to which he added the Chair of Botany at Oxford in 

 1669. In a book primarily about John Goodyer and his contem- 

 poraries, I have nothing good to say of Morison. He was 

 practically a foreigner, and unlike Ray, <he ignored the work of 

 English botanists. In the words of Sir Arthur Shipley ' He seems 

 to have been a somewhat selfish man of science, self-assertive, 

 taking every credit to himself, while allowing little to his pre- 

 decessors and contemporaries.' ^ 



List i. 



Semina harum primo quoque tempore ad me mitti desidero plantas vero 

 tempestate idonea. 



[Followed by an illegible note in How's hand] : — 

 Rememb. Vma max. syl. by sending in . . . 



1. Abrotanum Indorum. 



2. ,, unguentarium. 



3. Absynthium album umbilicatum. 



4. Acinos anglica Clus. 



5. „ „ fl. albo. 

 Anonis flore purpureo. 



6. Armeria syl. humilis fl. vineo rubello. 



7. Beta maxima. 



8. Cachrys verier Galeni. 



9. Calamintha pulegii odore. 



10. Makenbuy valde aneo scire quid sibivult et planta haec ipsiusque nomen. 



11. Oxys lutea virgineana. 



12. Chelidonium minus fl. pleno. 



13. Juniperus major. ~^ 

 Cochlearia vulgaris Britannica. 



„ vera rotundifolia minima. 



14. Alatricaria fl. Bullato aureo. 



15. Mentha crispa. 



16. Solanum ligncsum virginianum. 



17. Lysimachia lutea fl. globoso. 



^ It may be noted that while Morison was cataloguing his garden at Blois, an 

 Englishman, Sir Richard Browne, then resident in Paris, was at work on 

 a Catalogue of Evergreens in which he had been helped by a Mr. Keipe. In 

 a letter to Sir E. Nicholas, dated 5 July 1658, he noted that ' Alaternes beare a 

 graine like that of privet, which beinge sowed comes upp and prospers without 

 difficulty '. Camden Sac. xxxi, p. 65. Goodyer had noted Rhanimts Alaternus 

 in Coys' garden in 161 6. 



2 Schuster & Shipley, BritaMs Heritage of Science, p. 234. 



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