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8. Lepidium latifolium ? In Turner this is named L. magnum. 

 " Thys Lepidium that Pliny and Paul describe, groweth plentuously about 

 the water syde that rynneth thorow Morpeth in Northumberland, in suche 

 places as great heapes of stones are casten together with the myght of a 

 great spat or flood." (Pt. ii. fol. 35.) 



9. LiNUM usiTATissiMUM. " Plax, which is called of the Northern 

 men Lynt, in Duche Plachs, etc., groweth very plentuously also in south 

 parte," etc. (Pt. ii. fol. 39.) 



10. Meum athamanticum. "Meu groweth in the bisshoprik of Durram, 

 in wild mores, callecl felles, and viii. myles aboue Bon (Bonn), in Germany, 

 in a countre called Caltland." (Pt. ii. fol. 57.) 



11. Okobanche majus? '■'■ Orohanche, Chokewede (Pt. i. fol. 88), 

 groweth in many places in England, bothe in the Northe countre besyde 

 Morpethe, whereas it is called our Lady of New Chapellis flour,* and also 

 in the south countre, a lytic from Shene, in the broum closes." (Pt. ii. 

 fol. 71.) 



12. Petasites. "Thys herbe is called in Northumbrelande an Eldin, 

 and in Cambridgeshyre a Butterbur, in Duch PestUenz Wurz." 



18. Plantago major. "The greatest kynde is called in the South 

 parte of Englande Plantayn or grete Plantayn, and in the north countre 

 Waybrede or gi-ete Waybrede." (Pt. ii. fol. 94.) 



14. SoRBUS AucuPARiA. " The tre groweth in moyst woddes, and it 

 is called in North\imberlande, a rowne tre or a whitken tre, in the south 

 partes of England, a quicke beame tre." (Pt. ii. fol. 143.) 



The plants of Cambridgeshire and neighbouring counties ob- 

 served and described by Dr. Turner are, — 



1. LiGUSTRUM vuLGARE. " Pryvct growcth vciy plcntuously in Cam- 

 brich shyi'e in the hedges, and almostein euery gardin in London." (Pt. ii. 

 fol. 38.) 



2. Myrrhis odorata. " It groweth . . . very lyke unto Hunalock 

 (Hemlock). T never saw greter plenty of it then I haue seen in the hort- 

 yard (orchard) of Pembroke haU in Cambridge, where as I was sbm tyme 

 a pore felow." (Pt. ii. fol. 60.) 



3. Lentils. " Lentilles grow in great plenty in Cambridge shyre, and 

 all throw Gennany, where as they are husked and used for a meat." (Pt. ii. 

 fol. 38.) ' 



* " Thys herbe is caUed about Morpeth in Northumberland, new-ehappell floure : 

 because it grewe in a chappel there in a place called Bottell Bankes, where as the 

 unlearned people dyd worshyppe the Image of synt Mary, and reckoned that the 

 herbe grewe in that place by the vu'tue of that Image." (Fol. 88.) 



