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CHAPTERS ON BRITISH BOTANY. 



\May, 



that this gave a handle to Anthony Wood, who reproaches him 

 for undertaking the office of a preacher Avithout authority. Pos- 

 sibly he received deacon's orders at Cambridge, and so was au- 

 thorized to preach. 



In Bale tliere is the following list of Turner's works : — 



De Naturis Herbarum. 



In Catonis Distica Moralia. 



Sententiarum Flores ex Variis. 



Ad Unionem Dissidentium. 



De Arte Memorativa. 



In Publij Mimi Yersicidos. 



Pro Insequenda Ptomana Vulpe. 



Contra Wintoniensis Technas. 



De Missa Papistica. 



De Hierosolymorum Excidio. 



Epigrammata Diversa. 

 Prudeus admodum, et si quid. 

 Causa, candide Lector, initi labo. 

 Difficilia quae Pulchi-a, etc. 

 Non est ignotum tuse dominationi. 

 Quamvis tarn veteres iUi Philo. 

 x\lienum est omne qiiicquid oper. 

 Licet ab ipsa pueritia fuerim. 

 Haud est tuse Majestati lUustriss. 



Mackenzie, in his ' View of Northumberland/ states that Dr. 

 Turner was elected Fellow of Pembroke College in 1531 ; but 

 Dr. Pulteney's account is that he was a student of that College 

 in 1538. Are there any matriculation-books or rolls of this 

 early date extant in Cambridge University to help to clear up this 

 point? His first work on plants was printed at London, 1538, 

 by John Bydel."^ In this tract he describes himself as a very 

 young man, and on the whole writes in a humbler style than that 

 which would naturally be expected in an author who had been 

 seven years a Fellow of a College. 



* " Libellus de re herbaria noviis, in quo herbarum aliquot nomina Grseca, Latina, 

 et Anglica habes, una cum nominibus officinarum, in gratiam studiosse juventutis 

 nunc primum in lucem editus." Or, in English, 'A New Book on Plants, with 

 their Greek, Latin, and Enghsh Names, Officinal Uses, etc., for Junior Botanists.' 

 In an address to the reader, printed on the back of the titlepage, he notices that it 

 may be justly wondered why a beardless youth like himself, yery slenderly skilled in 

 the science of medicine, should venture to publish a work on botany, while he was 

 aware that there were so many persons in the country better acquainted with the 

 subject than himself. 



The following are specimens of this very interesting tract, which is in quarto, 

 and is contained in two sheets and a half, or ten folios : — 



" Vtscum Angli vacant Mysceltyne, aut Myscelto (called in Enghsh Mysceltine or 

 Myscelto). Densissimus iste frutex nusquam nisi in arboribus nascitiu' ; e terra 

 nunquam pervenit. Viscum tot ssecula Anglis ignotton fuisse demiror, quum in 

 pyris et malis sylvegtribus nusquam non proveniat." 



" This very bushy shrub grows nowhere but on trees, never on the groimd ; and 



