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difference might the better appeare, which is not a little to such 
as heedfully observe it; but our author in this is to be pardoned, 
mistooke this for it, as may appeare by that little tract of his of the 
names of plants ...: for there he saith I have seen this herbe of 
_late in Come Parke more astringent than it of Germany ... an 
indeed this grows there, and is much more astringent than that of 
Germany, and nowise fit to be eaten.” * 
With regard to the cultivation of L. tuberosus in Britain, we 
find in Parkinson’s Theatruwm Botanicum a clear statement, which 
not only confirms Johnson’s earlier statement that the habitats 
f ~m ; 
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figure and a description, both of which undoubtedly represent 
iL. macrorrhizus. Parkinson adds that “ the fourth fi. e. L. tube- 
rosus| is said by Gerard to grow in c th as 
sted, Coume Parke, etc., but we rather thinke it was th 
next [ macrorrhizus}, for the rootes we have hitherto found 
castanum, and some botanists ha; 
this author, however, was not familiar with the British flora. The 
Apios of Dodoens, Gerard, and half a dozen other writers was, 
* The tubers of L. macrorrhizus were, however, formerly eaten by the 
Scotch Highlanders. Smith’s English Flora, 1825, vol. iii. p. =e. q 
