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British growth. The following is an account of our author's dis- 

 coveries, — for all his plants may be deemed such, as no one before 

 him described the localities or the plants, and few did so much 

 as name them, as native productions. 



As has been hinted above, Wm. Turner's English plants may 

 be arranged in four classes, viz. : — 1st. Plants of Northumber- 

 land and its vicinity. 2nd. Cambridge and the contiguous coun- 

 ties. 3rd. Middlesex, Surrey, and Kent. 4th, Somersetshire, etc. 



The Northumberland plants specially recorded by Dr. Turner 

 (his own order is followed) are the following : — 



1. Artemisia marina. " Sea Wormwood. In oure tyme it is plente- 

 ously fouude in England, abont Lynne and Holly Ilond (Holy Island), in 

 Northumberland," etc. (Pt. i. fol. 1.) 



3. Paris quadrieolia. " (One berrye.) The herbe that hath bene 

 taken for lyberdes bayne, groweth plentuously besyde ilorpeth, in Northum- 

 berland, in a wod called Cottying Wod." (Pt. i. fol. 4.) 



3. SciLLA NUTANS. This, which our author calls " Hiaclnthns, is corn- 

 men in Englande, though it be not of the beste, and it is called Crow towes, 

 crow fote, and crow tese. The boyes in Northumberlande scrape the roote 

 of the herbe, and glew theyr an'owes and bokes wyth that slyme that they 

 scrape of." 



4. Bellis perennis. "In Northumberlande men call thys herbe a 

 banwm't, because it helpeth bones to knyt againe." (Pt. i. fol. 31.) 



5. Helleborus viRiDis. Syterwurt. " When I came in to Englande, I 

 dyd hear that dyuerse husband men whyte (with) whome I spake vsed (used) 

 to put the roote of barefoot into beastes eares, and called the puttynge in 

 of it syterynge of Ijeastes, and in sume place called the herbe syter wurte." 

 (Pt. i. fol. 64, 65.) "I haue seen both the kyndes in Englande: the one 

 kynde in gardynes whyche is wylde in Germany ; and the other kynde 

 with the broader leaffe whyche is onely in gardynes in Germany (as farre as 

 I could perceyue) in Northumberlande in the weste parke besyde Moi-peth, 

 a good stone cast from the water syde in the syde of the iiylle." (Pt. i. 

 fol. 65.) "I holde that a man for defaut of it (//. niger) may use that 

 kynde of Berefote that goeth every year into the ground {H. viridis), 

 whereof groweth greate plentye in a parke besyde Colchester, and in the 

 west parke besyde Morpeth, a little from the river called Wanspeck." 

 (Pt. ii. fol. 160.) 



6. Erica. " The hyest hethe that euer I saw groweth in Northum- 

 berland, which is so hyghe that a man may hyde hymself in." (Pt. i. 

 fol. 85.) 



7. Juniper. "In England it groweth most plentuouslye in Kent; it 

 groweth also in the bysshopryche of Durram, and in Northumberlande." 

 (Pt. ii. fol. 25.) 



