144 CHAPTERS ON BRITISH BOTANY. [May, 



]3. BuPLEURUM PERFOLiATUM. Throw Wax. "I have sene this in 

 great plenty in a corn field on the northe side of the citye of Wormis in 

 Germanye, and in no less quantitye in Somersetshyre, between Sommerton 

 and Marlocke." 



The following are a few of Dr. Turner's plants wliich have no 

 particular locality entered, but he gives their habitats (place 

 where they are generally found) . 



The Doctor gives the following description of the virulent pro- 

 perty of 



1. AcoNiTUM Napellus. "And thys wolfbane of all poysones is the 

 most hastye poison. Howbeit, Plini saith, that this herbe is good to be 

 dronken against the bytyng of a scoi-pyone. Thys is also the nature of 

 wolfes bayne, if anye credence may be gyuen unto Plini, that it will kyll a 

 man if he take it, excepte it fynde in a man some thyng y* it may kyll ; 

 with that it wyll stiyue as with hys mache, which it hath founde within 

 the man." (Pt. i. fol. 5.) 



2. Asparagus "groweth in diverse gardins in England, and in sume 

 places by the sea side, in sandy hilles." (Pt. i. fol. 27.) 



3. Anagallis ARVENSis. Pympemell. " The male pympernell groweth 

 commonlye in England in the corne and in tylled groundes, and so doth 

 the female growe in Germanye about Bon (Bonn) and Colon." (Eol. 15.) 



4. AsARUM EUROPIUM. Eolefotc. " Eolfoote groweth only in gardynes 

 in Englande ; but it groweth wylde in certayne places of Germanye." 

 (Pt. i. fol. 25.) 



5. Cyclamen heder^efolium. Sowesbrede. "I haue not seen it in 

 Englande, wherefore I knowe no usuaU name for it ; but least it shuld be 

 nameless, if it ether shuld be brought into England, or be founde in any 

 place in England, I name it Sowesbrede, or rape violet, and the roote is 

 lyke a rape." (Fol. 75.) 



6. ViNCA MINOR, Perwynckle. " Perwyncle groweth wild in many 

 places of Germany, and it groweth plentuously in Englande in gardynes, 

 and wylde also in the west cuntre." (Pt. i. p. 59.) 



7. CoRiANDRUM SATIVUM. "The leues (leaves) are wonderfuU and 

 stynkynge when they ar grene, the stalke is a cubytt and a halfe of 

 hygh, full of lytle branches, the floures are white, and the sede is round 

 and bare, and when it is drye, it is of a good sauoure and a good taste." 

 (Pf. i. fol. 66.) 



8. DiPSACUS SYLVESTRis and D. fullonum. "The wylde tasel groAv- 

 eth commonly aboute diches and watery places; in the begynnyng of 

 wynter the golde finches use mych to haunt this herbe, for the sedes 

 sake, wher of they are very desyrus ; the other groweth in gardines." 

 (Eol. 82.) 



