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8. Rhodon and Iris. A Pastoral presented at the 



Florists' Feast at Norwich, May 3rd, 1631. 

 By Ralph Knevett. 4to. 1631. 



9. Mercurius Botanicus, sive Plantarum gratia sus- 



cepti Itineris, Anno MDCXXXIV., Descriptio, 

 cum earum Nominibus Latinis et Anglicis, etc. 

 Londini : 1634-41. 8vo. Two parts. By 

 Thomas Johnson, M.D. , of Selby, and dedicated 

 under the name of Socius Itinerans to Dr. Theo- 

 dore May erne, Dr. Lister, etc. 



[The copy before me has MSS. notes and 

 matter added in a coeval hand, possibly the 

 author's. It was sold at Sotheby's, August 

 29th, 1877, No. 252. To part the first is at- 

 tached a small folded plan of Bath, of which 

 an account is comprised in the volume.*] 



10. A Theatre of 'Plants. By John Parkinson. Folio. 



London. 1640. 



11. The Countrymaris Recreation, or the Art of 'Plant- 

 ing^ Grafting, and Gardening, in three Bookes. 

 . . . Whereunto is added, The Expert Gardener. 

 By Gervase Markham. London : 1640. 4to. 



[ The Expert Gardener purports to be derived 

 from French and Dutch sources.] 



* Besides his published works, Johnson wrote an 

 account of a botanical tour in Kent, with some com- 

 panions, in the summer of 1629, and of the flora of 

 Hampstead in the following August. The MS. of 

 these two narratives, consisting of nineteen leaves in 



