XCVl FLORA OF BERKSHIRE 



works, Mr. Dayclon Jackson's reprint of the Zibellus, private!}' printed 

 in 1877, should be consulted. Turner's name is commemorated by 

 Plumier in the genus Tiirnera. To the works of this early English 

 botanist we are indebted for three indefinite Berkshire records and 

 one more precise. 

 ])i; r, ( )iiEL, The next author from whom we obtain local plant-notices is Matthias 

 DE l'Obel, or Lobelius, a native of Flanders, born at Lille in 1538. He 

 early acquired a love of plants, and had a good opportunity of advancing 

 his knowledge of them at Montpellier, where he studied medicine 

 under the learned Rondeletius. (The botanical garden at Montpellier 

 was not founded till 1598.) During his residence there he made some 

 botanical excursions into the south of France. At Narbonne he made 

 the acquaintance of Peter Pena, afterwards his fellow-labourer in the 

 Adversaria, and he subsequently visited many parts of the continent. 

 Having settled as a medical practitioner at Antwerp, he was appointed 

 physician to the illustrious William, Prince of Orange. His Adversaria 

 Kova was published in London in 1570-157 1, and dedicated to Queen 

 Elizabeth. 



The plates in this work were mostly original, but inferior in style 

 and accuracy to those of Clusius. The exact date of de FObel's removal 

 to England is not known, but he appears to have been aj^pointed 

 Botanographer to King James I at some time between 1550 and 1559. 

 In 1579 he reprinted his Adversaria at Antwerp. In the first edition 

 we find Parnassia palustris first recorded as a British jjlant under the 

 name of ' Granien Parnassi hederaccum recenfioron. In pratis et udis pascuis 

 Angliae ad Oxoniam.' A form of Acer cannoestre is described on p. 443. 



Sagittaria sagittifolia is referred to on p. 126 as ' Pistana Magonis sive 

 Plinii, Sagittaria aquatica ... in Anglia prope Oxonium.' On p. 257 

 Hydrodiaris Morsus-ranae is called ^Alba Minor,' and is also said to grow 

 ' in via quae Londino Oxoniam et Bristoiam ducit.' The Stirpium Historia 

 of the same author was also published at Antwerp in 1576. This work 

 is much less copious in printed matter, the pages being occupied with 

 woodcuts taken from de I'ficluse (Clusius), and borrowed by the 

 printer Plantin for this purpose. I have a copy of the impressions of 

 the plates alone, dated 1581. De l'Obel contemplated the preparation 

 of a large work, which he intended to call Stirpium Illustrationes. This 

 work he did not live to complete. De l'Obel had the care of the 

 garden of Lord Zouch at Hackney. He died in 1616, aged 78 years. 

 His name is perpetuated in the Linnean genus Lobelia. Four probable 

 records of Berkshire plants are contained in his works. 

 ( I ErAF.i>. In the Herlall of John GeraUd, or Gerarde. i)rinted in London in 1597, 



will be found the next plant-records of Berkshire. The author of this 

 work was born at Nantwich in Cheshire in 1545. He was educated for 

 practice as a surgeon. On his removal to London before 1577 he 



