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Moor nigh Reding.' The plants intended are Rhamnus Fmngula and 

 Alnus glutinosa. (The first mention in print of the hitter species appears 

 to be in Pope's poem of Whidsor Forest, published in 1719 : 'The 

 Loddon slow, with verdant alders crowned.') ^ Bursa pastor is )ninor, 

 Park. In the corne neer the hedge on the south side of the greate 

 pond at Coleman's Moor.' The plant is Teesdalia nudicaidis. ' Eypericuvi. 

 elegant issimum non ramosum folio Mo, 3. B. In the pits above the middle 

 of Earl's field and in the land on the right hand side of Loddon bridge, 

 3 miles from Eeding': Hypericum montanum was the plant intended. 

 ' Lysimachia galericulata minor. In Coleman's Moor and other places about 

 Reding': Scutellaria minor. ^ Oenanthe cicufae facie Lobelii, Park. Near 

 Loddon bridge and Coleman's Moor.' This is the Oenanthe crocata 

 already on record. 



Jacob Bobakt, son of Jacob Bobart, the Keeper of the Botanic Garden Bobakt, 

 in Oxford, was born in 1641, and became an assistant in the garden the 

 under his father. While thus engaged he made a collection of plants, Yor>-(^EK. 

 principally from the garden. This collection, contained originally in 

 twelve volumes, is still preserved at Oxford, and the plants remain 

 in the sequence in which Bobart left them. Bobart assisted, and 

 probably bore a large part, in the production of the second edition of 

 the catalogue of the Oxford Garden. 



The Library of the Garden contains a manuscript volume entitled 

 Bobart Catalogus — Cafalogus Plantarum in Horto et circa Oxoniam crescentium — 

 an alphabetical list of plants by no means identical with either the 

 first or second edition of the published catalogue, though compiled in 

 a similar manner. Among the plants enumerated are : ' Campanukc 

 Cymbalariae folio vel folio hederaceo, CB, p. 93. Ivie-leafed Bell flower.' 

 • Filix mas non ramosa pinmdis angusds raris profunde dentatis, Ger. 1130. 

 Chilswell ' [Berkshire]. ' Lingua cervina crisjya ex Devonia.' ' Scrojyhularia 

 major, Ger. 716.' ' Eadem foliis viridibus.' Altogether about two 

 thousand plants are enumerated, but unfortunately the Berkshire 

 locality just mentioned is the only one that is given. 



After Morison's death in 1683 Bobart was made Keeper of the Garden, 

 and probably Professor of Botany at Oxford. In the Historical Register 

 of the University the date of his appointment as Professor is given as 

 1684. On the title-page of the Historia Oxo7iiensis of 1699 he signs him- 

 self ' Horti Praefectus.' In 1683 he published in the Philosopthical 

 Transactions a paper on the effects of the great frost of the preceding- 

 winter on trees and other plants. The volume, called the third of the 

 Plantartim Historia Universalis Oxoniensis, was edited, and the greater part 

 of it written, by Bobart, and was published at Oxford in 1699. A Life 

 of Mori son is prefixed, with a portrait drawn by ^Vhite from the oil- 

 painting by Sunman in the Library of the Garden ; underneath the 

 portrait are the following lines by Archibald Pitcairne, M.D. : — 



