MORISON 357 



Harum praedictarum tarn in primo quam secundo, 310 Catalogo contentaruin 

 semina penes te, ad me mitti primo quoque tempore non dubito quia hie apud 

 nos appropinquat serendi tempus. 



Ouin oratum et exoratum te velim ut ex 400 sponte in Anglia provenientibu 

 adjiciendisque aliquot rariora semina (quorum tibi est copia) ad me mittas. 



[MS. f. 169-73. 



In 1661 and 1662 Dr. Morison, established in the Keepeiship of 

 the King's Gardens in London, was visited by John Ward.^ Under 

 Feb. 1661-2, Ward noted that, unHke Goodyer, Dr. Modesay ' never 

 studied grasses and mosses '. ' Att ye King's Garden Dr. Modesie 

 showed us some of his very rare plants as 



Marum Syriacum. Mastick. 



Crithmum spinosum. Samphire. 



Barba Jovis. Silver bush. 



and the conversation turned on Lysimachia purpurea spicata, 

 Chelidonium majus and minus, the Sycamore, and Rabelais. Ward 

 evidently enjoyed the visit, for he repeated the experience on 

 I Sept. 1662, remarking * itt is a very rare thing to discourse with 

 him '. This time he noted 



Jacobaea crithmifoliis 

 Capparis Fabago 

 Cappadiis 

 Capsicum polygala 

 Valentina Clusii 

 and many other rare plants. 



^ D'Arcy Power, Oxford Physic Garden, Ann. Med. Hist, ii, p. 122. 



