158 ADDITIONS To THE WYCOMBE FLORA. 
ment obtains : and in Trimen and Dyer’s ‘Flora of Middlesex,’ the 
best and most recent county Flora, the date of the first obser- 
vation of each species recorded is given, with such notes in 
reference to its occurrence and record as appear of interest. It 
is my intention in the present paper to enumerate the plants 
which were recorded as occurring in Buckinghamshire prior to 
the commencement of the present century; reserving for a second 
paper the references made to them in the earlier part of it. 
Dr. William Turner, known as the father of English botany, 
published two books, the ‘ Herball,’ and the ‘ Names of Herbes ;’ 
the latter in 1548, the former in three parts, from 1551 to 1556. 
Although he records sixteen plants as occurring in Middlesex, he 
makes no reference to those in our county. It is to Gerarde’s 
Herbal (1597) that we must turn for the first mention of Buck- 
inghamshire plants: he gives the following :— 
1. Ophioglossum vulgatum L SP caeaky toong’’). — ‘In the 
meadowes by Cole-brooke.” 
2. Gentiana Amarella L.— Upon a heath by Colbrooke neere 
London.” 
3. Campanula glomerata L.—‘‘ In the medowe next unto Ditton 
ferrie as you goe to Windsore.” 
4. Inula Helenium lL. Elecampane.—‘‘In an orcharde as yee 
go from Colbrook to Ditton ferrie, which is the way to Windsor.” 
5. Xanthium Strumarium L.—“ I founde [it] in the high waie 
leading from Draiton to Iver, two miles from Colbrooke.” 
6. <Archangelica officinalis (Hoffm.) — ‘“‘My friende Master 
Bredwell founde this plant growing by the mote which com- 
passeth the house of Master Munke of the parish of Iver, two miles 
from Colbrooke.” 
7. Berberis vulgaris L. ‘‘,(Barberie bush).—Especially about a 
gentlemans house called Master Monke, dwelling in a village 
called Iver two miles from Colebrooke, where most of the 
hedges are nothing else but Barberie bushes.”’ 
8. Myrica Gale. (Bog Myrtle.)—‘ By Colbrooke.” 
Here we may note that Nos. 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, and 8 are cited by 
Trimen and Dyer (the 2nd and 7th, doubtfully) as Middlesex Jo- 
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