1861.] CHAPTERS ON BRITISH BOTANY. 133 



Our author's work, ' Historia de Naturis Herbarum Scholiis 

 et Notis Vallata,' may be the work entered first in Bale's list, 

 see ante. Pulteney is probably mistaken in suspecting that 

 Bumaldus is the only autlior who notices this treatise. He is 

 certainly so in stating that this is Turner's first botanical work : 

 see below. 



The 'Libellus de Re Herbaria' was printed at London, 1538; 

 the ' Historia de Naturis Herbarum ' was printed at Cologne, in 

 1544. 



There is a fuller account of our author's literary labours in 

 Bishop Tanner's ' Bibliotheca ;' and the following list is partly 

 derived from A. Wood and partly from Tanner : — 



The Hunting of the Eomish Fox, which more than 7 years hath been 

 hid among the Bishops of England, etc. Basil, 1543. 



A History of Birds, from Pliny. In Latin. Colon. 1544. 



Rescuing of the Eomish Pox, etc. 1545. 



Hunting of the Eomish Wolf. (Pro Insequenda Eomana Vulpe. Bale.) 



Dialogue Containing an Examination of the Mass, etc. (De Missa 

 Papistica. Bale.) 



New HerbaU. (De Naturis Herbarum. Bale ?) 



A Preservative or Triacle against the Poison of Pelagius. 1551. 



A New Book of Spiritual Physic. 1555.* 



A Book of the Nature and Properties of the Baths of England, etc. 



A Treatise of the Bath at Bath. 



it is singular that it should have been unobserved for so many ages in England, 

 where it abounds everywhere on apple and pear trees." 



" Mercury vacatur; ejus duo sunt genera, mascula etfoemina. Mascula haud temere 

 apud nos reperitur ; vidi tamen Cantabrigie, in horto aula regice^'' etc. 



" There are two sorts of Mercury, the male and the female. The latter is un- 

 frequent in our country ; but I have seen it in the gardens of King's College, 

 Cambridge." 



"Lupus saUctarius, officinis dicitur lupulus." In ofBcinal l&ngxidige, Lupidus ; 

 and in English, Hoppes." 



" In the shops the Daisy is called the lesser Consolida ; in the language of the 

 country a Daisy, In Northumberland we call that a Daisy which has a purple 

 flower and is raised in gardens ; the flower we call a Banwort." 



The imprint of this rare tract is " Londoni apud ioannem Bydellum, anno dni. 

 1538." 



* In his preface to this work he relates the following : — " When as of late yeares 

 I practised bodcly phisick in England, in my Lorde of Sumersette's house, divers 

 sick beggars came unto me, and not knowing that I was a phisician, asked of me 

 myne almose. To whom I offered to heale tlieir diseases for Godde's sake. But 

 they went by and by awaye fi*om me and would none of that." 



