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shall find to be correct, but, in the second edition (iv. 309) we are 
told incorrectly that the plant was cultivated by Gerard in 1596: 
this is almost certainly the authority copied by Paxton, Johnson, 
and later writers. 
Having failed to identify any of the plants in the 1596 edition 
of Gerard’s Catalogus as D . Daydon 
Ai ars 
second edition of Hortus Kewensis (1812). It is, however, in- 
correct, for, although the Apios of Fuchs was undoubtedly Lathyrus 
tuberosus, the plant which Gerard cultivated was certainly not 
that plant. In the second edition (1599) of Gerard’s Catalogus, 
the English as well as the Latin names of the plants are given by 
the author, and one finds that the English name of the plant 
he cultivated was the “Knobbie Spurge ” (Euphorbia. Apios). 
Gerard certainly oil plants too well to have confused a 
1a. : 
__ We will now consider Mr. Miller Christy’s statement that 
Gerard, in his Herbal (1597), confused Lathyrus tuberosus with 
L. macrorrhizus. In the Herbal we find (p. 1057), under the 
heading ‘“ Pease Earthnut,” an undoubted figure and description 
of L. tuberosus. This is as we should expect, for we are told by 
Johnson, in his introduction to the second (1633) edition of 
translation of the 1583 edition of the Pemptades of Dodoens by 
Priest, who translated it from a French translation by L’Ecluse. 
