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obtained the patronage of Lord Burleigh, who made him superinten- 

 dent of the very large garden which he had in the Strand. Gerard's 

 own garden was in Holborn. A catalogue of the plants in the latter 

 garden was Gerard's first printed work, and appeared in 1596. It was 

 dedicated to Lord Burleigh ; the second edition, published in 1599, 

 was dedicated to Sir "Walter Kaleigh. In 1597 the Herball was pub- 

 lished ; the foundation of the work was Dodoen's Herbal, and a great 

 deal of the text was probably written by Dr. Priest. The figures are 

 from the blocks used for the Dutch Herbal of Tabernaemontanus in 

 his Eicones of 1590. In this way, with Dodoens for his foundation, by 

 taking in many plants from de I'Ecluse and de I'Obel and by con- 

 tributing twentj'-five plates from his own stock, Gerard produced a 

 volume which, being well timed and comprehending almost the whole 

 of the subjects then known, being written in English and adorned with 

 a more numerous set of figures than had accompanied any previous 

 work of the kind in England, obtained a great repute. On p- 89 of 

 this Herbal Gerard records Narthecium ossifragum from a locality which 

 may be either in Surrey or Berkshire, or even in both counties, under 

 the name of Asphodelus Lancastriae. ' Thomas Edwards,' says Gerard, 

 * found this at the foote of a hill in the west part of England, called 

 Bagshot hill, neere unto a village of the same name.' On p. 535 

 Teucrium Scordhim is definitely added to the Berkshire Flora. Gerard 

 says : ' it groweth neere to Oxenford by Kuley on both sides of the 

 water, and in a medowe by Abington called Nietford.' On p. 803 

 Alchimilla (A. vulgaris), Lion's foot or Ladies' Mantle, is reported from 

 many places ' in Barkshire.' On p. 569 Cardiaca, Motherwoort, is said to 

 occur 'among rubbish in stonie and other barren and rough places, 

 especially about Oxford.' On p. 337 we read that Sagittaria major and 

 S. minor grow in the ditches near the walls of Oxford. This refers to 

 Sagittaria sagittifolia already recorded by de I'Obel, Sagittaria minor being 

 only a small form of the plant. Four species are thus added to our 

 list. Gerard died in 1612, and was buried in St. Andrew's, Holborn. 

 Plumier named the genus Gcrardia after him. 



Reference has been made to the works of Clusius, more pioperly Clusius, 

 Charles de l'Ecluse, an eminent botanist, born at Arras in the 

 French Netherlands in 1526. He was educated at Ghent and Lou vain. 

 Having always had a great desire to see other countries, at the age of 

 twenty-three he visited Germany, where he imbibed a taste for natural 

 history and especially for botany. He afterwards travelled through 

 the south of France, and in Spain and Portugal, chiefly with the view 

 of studying the flora of those countries, and this he amply illustrated. 

 He visited England several times, and on one of these occasions he 

 went to Windsor and noticed there Calluna and Erica cinerea, both new 

 records. In 1573 he was invited by Maximilian II to Vienna. In 



