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printed in 1538 his Libellus de Re Herbaria, 

 and in 1549 A List of the Names of Herbs, 

 with their common designations. Turner's 

 Herbal was partly given to the world in 

 1551, but was not completed till 1568, when 

 the author republished it with a remarkable 

 preface addressed to Queen Elizabeth, in 

 which he exposes and laments the ignorance 

 of the apothecaries of those days. This pre- 

 liminary matter, for its curiosity and per- 

 manent interest, the present writer included 

 in his volume of Prefaces (1874). 



Turner's example encouraged, perhaps, 

 Henry Lyte, of Lytescary, in Somersetshire, 

 to undertake a translation of the Herbal of 

 Rembert Dodoens, which came out in 1578, 

 and was reprinted in 1581 and 1619. 



But while the printed literature of the 

 country is comparatively late and barren, 

 there were of course innumerable MSS. 

 treatises on the subject in circulation from 

 the Saxon era downwards, chiefly in the 

 form of catalogues and glossaries, such as 

 still exist in the Harleian and other public 

 collections, and which were prepared some- 



