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works that I have seen was a little book of the names of herbs 

 in Greeke, Latine, Englyshe^ Dutche^, and Frenche, etc.^ printed 

 at London in 1548. . . . He was a man of good judgment and 

 learning, and performed well what he tooke in hande." The 

 readers of the ' Phytologist' know that there is still extant a 

 printed and published work of this eminent early botanist, which 

 bears on its title-page the date of 1539. A manuscript copy of 

 this precious relic is in the possession of the writer of this article. 



Dr. Turner^s residence for a short period in Sion House, at 

 Isleworth or Brentford, where he localized some plants described 

 in his History, and his subsequent residence in London, where 

 he died and where he was buried, entitle him to a place among 

 the metropolitan botanists. His merits and his works were de- 

 scribed at some length in a former number of this periodical. 



Mr. Henry Lyte, the translator of Dodoens or Dodonseus, 

 forms a link between Dr. Turner and the celebrated botanists 

 Lobel and Pena. The first edition of Lyte's work appeared in 

 1578. Lobel was of Flemish origin, and born at Lisle in 1538, 

 and very early in life showed a decided partiality to the study of 

 plants. Johnson says that he was born at Ryssele, in Flanders. 

 Dr. Pulteney informs his readers (vol. i. p. 97) that he studied 

 at Montpelier, under the famous Rondeletius, who was celebrated 

 as an ichthyologist. During his residence at this celebrated seat 

 of learning, he made collections of plants in that locality, so re- 

 nowned for its salubrity and its botanical riches. 



At Narbonne, the same author says, he formed a connection 

 with Pena, who was jointly concerned with him in his first work, 

 the * Adversaria,' which contains some original notices of British 

 plants, and was published in 1570. A more complete edition of 

 this learned work was published in 1.605. 



Dr. Pulteney informs us that this Avork contains the first 

 sketch of a natural method of arrangement, by which the plants 

 are grouped according to their external appearance or their habit 

 and flowers. Though rude, it is considered by this critic — surely 

 no mean judge — far superior to Dodoens' divisions. 



The learned doctor, quoting Ray's remark, further states that 

 Lobel points out precisely the particular spots where some of the 

 rare English plants are found growing spontaneously ; also, that 

 he has been " in this respect inaccurate, or trusted too much to 

 his memory, since many have been sought for in vain in the 



