200 CHAPTERS ON BKITISH BOTANY. \July, 



Turner, William : English Herball. 1554. 



Tragi Commentaria, D. Kybero. Argent. 1553_, etc. 



Note A. — The following abbreviations are employed : — Bauh., 

 Bauhin, C, Pinax. B. or Bil., Billerbeck, the author of the 

 Flora Classica. Clus., Clusius, Historia Plantarum. Col., 

 Fabius Columna, author of the Phytobasanos and Ecphrasis. 

 Park., Parkinson, John. Sib., Sibthorp. S. or Sp., Sprengel. 

 Stack., Stackhouse, John. Theo., Theophrastus. Trag., Tragus. 

 T., Turner, Wm. 



Note B. — The Latin generic name has the precedence, and the 

 arrangement is alphabetical. The Greek name is generally the 

 same as the Latin ; but when there is a difference, the former is 

 entered in a parenthesis. 



Note C. — It is well known that the Latin wiriters make a slight 

 modification of the original orthography to adapt it to the form 

 customary in their own language ; for example, ov in Greek is 

 um in Latin, 09 us, at is (E, ov is u, etc. 



Abrotanum [Artemisia Abrotanum), the Southern-wood of 

 our gardens, is Santolina rosmarinifolia ? according to Stack- 

 house, lUustrationes, p. 3 ; Cat. Alphabet, and C. Systemat. p. 



16. On the contrary, Billerbeck, in his Flora Classica, makes 

 the plant described by Theophrastus (book vi. c. 24), Artemisia 

 campestris, Lin. It is therefore uncertain to what modern spe- 

 cies or genus, or even order, the plant of Theophrastus should be 

 referred. Many of the anciently described plants are involved in 

 this uncertainty. See Bil. 212, 213. 



Absinthium. Several writers have mentioned that this plant, 

 Artemisia Absinthium, L., is not that of Theophrastus, nor of 

 Greece. They say that A. ponticum is the genuine plant which 

 now bears this name. See Bil. 213 ; Theo. ix. 18. Sibthorp ob- 

 served A. maritima on the shores of the Bosphorus. Bil. 214. 



Acer Pseudo^Platanus, L., is probably a(f)€pBa/jbvo9 of the 

 Greeks. See Lobel. Adv. 443. It is unnecessary to quote the 

 other authorities, they all agree with Stackhouse. Billerbeck 

 tells us that both our British Sycamores were known to Theo- 

 phrastus and to the Romans. 



AcoRus. A. Calamus, L., and Ka\afjLo<; evoa-fio'i, Theoph. i. 



17, may be identical. All authors agree about this species, and 

 the plant is so remarkable that there can be no doubt about the 



