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medical practice was not probably of a high order, for he advertised six 

 quack nostrums — the Indian Purge, Purging Marmalade, Ambretta, Golden 

 Aqua Mirahilis, Paul Royal, and Syrup of Manna or Cordial Purge : the 

 sale of these, however it may have filled his pockets, can scarcely have 

 added to his reputation. 



As regards Middlesex, a very full list of species growing about London 

 can be obtained from his books, in all amounting to about 340 ; the majo- 

 rity of these would be inhabitants of our county. Petiver stands as the 

 earliest observer of as many as 66 species, certainly natives of Middlesex ; 

 amongst which we find Ranu7icidus auricomus, Papaver dubium, Dianthus 

 deltoides, Moenchia, Radiola, Sanicula, Adoxa, Asperula odorata, Filago 

 minima, Lactuca muralis, Jasione montana, LiUorella, Polygonum lapathifo- 

 lium, P. minus, Salix triandra, Potamogeton lucens, Zannichellia, Carex 

 ovalis, C.pallescens, C. pseudo-Cyperus, Milium, and Asplenium Buta-muraria. 



We have next to speak of a botanist who, though he never published, has 

 left us an excellent MS. Flora, and a herbarium of large extent illustrating 

 its pages, and thus conferred a great benefit on his successors in botanical 

 science. Of Adam Buddle we have been able to gather but scanty infor- 

 mation. Beyond a casual allusion to his collections, his name is not men- 

 tioned in Pulteney's sketches ; and though he is often spoken of in letters of 

 the period, the amount of definite information respecting him is very small. 

 He was born at Deeping St. James, Lincolnshire (v. Budd. M8S. sub 

 Prunus, 6), but we have not been able to discover in what year. He was 

 educated at Catherine Hall, Cambridge, and took his B.A. in 1681, and 

 M.A. in 1685. He seems not to have commenced his botanical studies till 

 some time after, as he is not mentioned in either of Pay's editions of the 

 Synopsis. In 1696, however, the date of the second edition, he must have 

 been working at Mosses, for the next year he is mentioned in a letter of 

 Petiver's * as then well versed in them. In what year he took holy orders 

 we do not know. In 1698 he was living at Henley in Suffolk, and during 

 that year and the next kept up a correspondence with Doody and Petiver, 

 also sending them his collections of grasses and mosses, at that time the 

 best in the kingdom. So valuable were they that they were transmitted to 

 the French botanist Tournefort, at Paris. Buddie was also intimate with 

 Dale of Braintree, one of the best British botanists of the time ; and in 1699 

 he paid a visit to Ray, which he describes in Sloane MSS. 4039, fol. 275. 



He first became especially connected with Middlesex in 1700, when he 

 went to Hampstead, though under what circumstances we cannot discover. 

 Nichols (i. p. 269), indeed, states that at about this period he 'had a living 

 given him by Lord Keeper Wright,' but as the perpetual curate of Hamp- 

 stead during this period was Samuel Nalton, B.D.,t Buddie could not have 

 held that position. It is possible that he may have been curate there tem- 

 porarily,t for, as already mentioned, he in 1706 preached there a funeral 



* Sloane MSS. 3333, fol. 21. In 1702 Vernou calls him 'the top of all the moss- 

 croppers.' t Park's Hampstead. 

 t There are no entries, however, in his handwriting in the parish registers of the period. 



