138 CHAPTERS ON BRITISH BOTANY. l^^iy, 



The index, or register, which is on the recto side of the last 

 leaf, is alphabetical according to the English names, and the 

 number is nearly one hundred and seventy. 



The localities noticed in England are chiefly Northumberland, 

 his native county ; Cambridge, where he was educated ; Dover, 

 by which he went to the Continent ; Sion House, Isleworth, and 

 Hichmond ; and Somersetshire, where he was chiefly domiciled 

 after his last return to his native country. The continental loca- 

 lities are chiefly Bonn, on the Rhine, Worms, Basle, and several 

 parts in the north of Italy. 



The second part begins with Far/us and ends with Xanthium and 

 Xyris, and here, as in the first part, the names are alphabetically 

 arranged. The number in both parts, with the additions made 

 in the third part, is about three hundred. This last part of the 

 work is dated from " Welles, June 24th, 1564," and dedicated to 

 the Company of Surgeons, to whom he apologizes for its imper- 

 fections thus : — " Being so much vexed with sickness, and occu- 

 pied with preaching and the studye of divinitie and exercise of 

 discipline, I have hadde but small leisure to write Herballes." 



Turner, according to Pulteney, "is the first author who has 

 given a figure of the Lucern, which he first brought into Eng- 

 land, and named Horned Clover. He treats largely of its culti- 

 vation from Pliny, Palladius, and Columella." 



Dr. William Turner's merits as an English botanist will be 

 better understood, and the amount of our obligations to him will 

 be more precisely known, when his labours in this department of 

 the science can be compared with those of his predecessors, his 

 contemporaries, and his immediate successors. This part of the 

 general subject will constitute the matter of a subsequent chap- 

 ter. For the present our account is limited to the British plants 

 and their localities, which were first, as far as is known to us, de- 

 scribed and published as indigenous, native, or spontaneous pro- 

 ductions. 



The number of English plants described in Turner's ' Herbal ' 

 is upwards of three hundred, about one-third of those enumerated 

 in Ray's ' Catalogue of the Plants of England,' and barely one- 

 sixth of the species now generally believed to be of spontaneous 



the names, i. e. Greek or Latin, causes much trouble to the students of Turner's 

 ' Herbal.' But the students, or even readers, of this excellent work are not nume- 

 rous. 



