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graphics and falsely naming of herbes.' He became an ardent 

 Protestant, a friend of Ridley and Latimer, and led a very 

 troublous life. After being imprisoned by Bishop Gardiner, 

 in the reign of Henry VHI, he fled to the continent, and at 

 Bologna attended the lectures of Ghinus, who was the first pro- 

 fessor who ever gave special lectures on botany at a medical 

 school. At the accession of Edward VI Turner returned to 

 England and was actively engaged both as a physician and 

 divine. He was prebend of York in 1549 and 1550, and then 

 was appointed Dean of Wells. His ' Libellus de re herbaria 

 novus,' originally published in 1538, has recently been re- 

 printed in fac-simile, by Mr. Daydon Jackson, the secretary 

 of the Linnsean Society, and his ' Names of Herbes,' published 

 in 1548, has been reprinted by Mr. Jas. Britten, of the British 

 Museum. The first volume of his herbal was published at London 

 in 155 1, the second at Cologne, to which city he fled on the 

 accession of Queen Mary, in 1562. He lived to return to 

 England when Elizabeth came to the throne, and died in 1568, 

 a few months after the publication of a third part of his herbal. 

 He had a garden at Wells, where he resided as Dean, and 

 speaks also of his garden at Kew. A genus, Turnera, was 

 named after him by Plumier and Linnaeus, and this has given 

 its name to the natural order Tiirnerace(s. 



The herbal of Fuchsius, of which I possess a copy, is two 

 years earlier than Turner's, having been published at Lyons, in 

 1549. It is simply a series of rough woodcuts, with the names 

 of the plants in five languages. After its author the well-known 

 genus Fuchsia was named. 



Next to Turner came Lobel, after whom an equally well- 

 known genus. Lobelia^ takes its name. He was of Flemish 

 extraction, and came to England and settled in London early 

 in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. His ' Stirpium Adversaria,' 

 the first edition of which was published in 1570 and a second 

 in 1605, is a considerable advance upon Turner, inasmuch as 

 it contains the first rough rudiments of a natural scheme of 

 classification. 



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