68 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
was incorporated as M.D. at Oxford in 1611. He practised in 
London, apparently as a barber-surgeon, and died about 1629—the 
year of the publication of Parkinson’s Paradisws—leaving all his 
manuscripts to his servant, HEdwa oeton, Licentiate in 
Chirurgery. Poeton took up his residence at Petworth, whence, 
in 1630, he published The Chyrurgians Closet or Antidotarte 
Chyrurgicall. This little quarto volume consists entirely of 
medical prescriptions grouped under alphabetical headings, such 
as “ Balms, Cataplasms, Synapisms, Oyles, Unguents,” &c., wit 
nothing of a botanical nature; nor can I trace these recipes in 
Parkinson’s book 
Pulteney only speaks (p. 105) of some of Lobel's papers falling 
into Parkinson’s hands, and being incorporated in his work, we 
cannot ignore the precise statement made by How * that he had 
seen the unpublished “ volumes” of the work that had occupied 
the last forty years of Lobel’s life, “ compleat, The Title! Epistle! 
and Diploma affix’d!”’ 
It seems more likely that the extracts from Clusius were the 
work of one who had lived for years on terms of intimacy with 
him in Flanders, rather than that of the old apothecary of Long 
Acre; whilst Parkinson’s statement +—‘he prevented by death 
failing to performe it I have, by purchasing his Works with my 
Money here supplied””—seems only comparable to Gerard’s effron- 
G. S. BouLGER. 
SHORT NOTES. 
Note on Hypericum catycinum L.—In English Botany, 
t. 2017 (May 1, 1809), Smith writes: “We add to our Flora 
by him and by Smith “ perfectly wild.” The plant is, of course, 
abundantly naturalized in many localities in the three kingdoms; 
but the earliest record of its occurrence will be found in a letter 
from Samuel Brewer to Sloane, written at Bradford, January 10, 
1730, and preserved in Sloane MSS. 4051, f. 166, as follows: “As 
* Lobel, Stirpium Illustrationes (1655), pp. 164-5. 
{ Theatrum, p. 1060. t Preface to the Herball (1597). 
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