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4. Sambucus Ebulus. " Walwurt grovveth mych about Cambridge." 

 (Pt. i. fol. 83.) " I have marked in om- Englyshe ebulo in Cambryge 

 sbyre that the stalk was round and not foure square." (Pt. i. fol. 58.) 



5. Petasites. "This herbe is called in Northumberland an Eldin, in 

 Cambridge shyi-e a Butterbur." (Pt. ii. fol. 83.) 



6. HoKDEUM MURINUM. " The way bent (way bennet) hath a leafe like 

 grasse, and groweth plentuously in Cambridgeshii'e about highe ways." 

 (Pt. ii. fol. 17.) 



7. Ononis arvensis? (spinosa). "In Cambryge shyre this herb is 

 called a whyne but I put pety to it to make dyfference betwene thys herbe, 

 and a fur, whyche in manye places of Englande is also called a Whyne." 

 (Pt. i. fol. 180 



8. Pyrus communis. " Fp'a superba, that is to say, prowde peares, are 

 lytle and sonest rype, and these are called, in Cambridge, Midsummer 

 peares," (Pt. ii. fol. 108.) 



9. EuoNYMUS EUROP^us. " Spyndell tree. Althoughe I haue seen this 

 tree oft tymes in Englande, and in moste plenty betwene Ware and Bark- 

 way, yet for all that 1 never could learne an Englyshe name for it." (Pt. i. 

 fol. 89.) 



10. Teucrium Scordium. Water Germander. " Scordium groweth in 

 Oxfordshyre and in Cambridge shyre in good plenty." (Pt. i. fol. 130.) 



The following plants^ localized in Turner's 'Herbal/ are some 

 of those growing in the south-eastern shires of England : — 



1. Tragopogon minor? " Gotes bearde. Let us rede as Theophrastus 

 doth : Out of the top cummeth a hore whyte bearde, wherupon it is 

 called gotes bearde : thes be the wordes of Theophrastus. The herbe 

 whiche we cal gotes bearde in barune places hath but a short stalke, but 

 in gardines and in ranke meddos it hath a longe stalke, and full of ioyntes 

 like knees. About London I haue sene in the feld thys herbe wyth a 

 swete roote and wyth blake sede and a yelow floure, and after the floure is 

 gone, with a great dele of longe whyte doune lyke tuftes of whyte here, 

 but about Colon (Cologne) I saw it whyche had whyte sede and a bytter 

 roote, all full of mylke, as in other places it doth appere." (Pt. i. fol. 31.) 



2. Hypericum calycinum? (hircinum?) " Greate Saint Johnes 

 wm'te. I haue sene it dyuers^e tymes in Syon parke." (Pt. i. fol. 16.) 



3. Anemone Pulsatilla. "It groweth in greate plenty aboute Bon 

 (Bonn) in Germanye, and about Oxforde in Englande, as my frend Fal- 

 coner tould me." (Pt. i. fol. 17.) 



4. Anthemis nobilis. " Chamomyle. This herbe is scarce in Ger- 

 many, but in England it is so plentuous that it groweth not only in 

 gardynes, but also viii. myle aboue London it groweth in the wylde felde. 



