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reference to the simple vegetable diet of the primitive ages, and 

 quoting from Ovid the lines on the happy Golden Age, with its 

 food of Arbutus berries, Mundy continues thus :— 



" Et ita re vera fuit, siquidem morbis, vitiisque caruit quae 

 nostras politiori setati luxuria in cibus intulit. Parum sane esset 

 id genus victus nisi quod aliud adliuc non noverant : sed non erat 

 insalubre & vescentibus alimentum benigne suppeditabat. Et 

 homines eo solo uti coacti, non minus quam alii laute viventes 

 vegeti esse & torosi observantur. Sunt item Hiberni, qui suo 

 Chambroch (quod est trifolium pratense purpureum) aluntur, celeres 

 et promptissimi roboris. 



" Sic animalia quibus maximal vires et moles, equi, boves, 

 elephanti, herbaceo tantum pabulo nutriuntur, nec alia Sagina 

 pinguescunt. Unde nonnulli colligunt, herbaceos cibos jumentis 

 tantum relinquendos : sed errant ; comprobavit enim experientia 

 esse magis secundum naturam humanam bourn more, quam lu- 

 porum, vivere, oleribus subinde quam carnibus semper vesci." 



Though Mundy's book seems to have achieved a high popularity 

 soon after its publication— two editions having issued from Oxford 

 (1680 and 1685), one from London (1681), one from Frankfurt, 

 that quoted from by Linnaaus, in 1685, anotber from Leyden in the 

 same year, and a pirated edition, as Prof. Fries informs me, from 

 Hanover in 1687, under an altered title and with a disguised 

 author's name, — very little now seems to be known about Henry 

 Mundy beyond what we can gather from the title-page of the 

 Frankfurt edition of 1685, where the author is described as a 

 famous Oxford physician. As the Editor of this Journal has 

 pointed out (Jonm. Bot. 1889, 262), Kunth, according to Pfeiffer 



Oxoniensi," so that Kunth would appear to have known of Mundy, 

 and thought his name worthy of perpetuation. 



In Mundy, at all events, we have a new authority on the 

 Shamrock, the original from which Eay as well as Linnaeus must 

 have drawn, for though Eay attributes his knowledge of the Irish 

 use of the Trifolium pratense as food to his constant correspondent, 

 Dr. Tancred Robinson, there can be no doubt that Eobinson merely 

 transcribed the passage from one of the three editions of Mundy's 

 hook which appeared before the publication of Eay's Historia 

 Plantarum. Nathaniel Colgan. 



Mr. W. A. Clarke sends the following :— '"Henry Munday, son 

 of Henry M., born at Henley, in Oxfordshire, became one of the 

 portionists of Merton Coll. in the beginning of the rebellion, took 

 one degree in arts in 1647, and 'kept pace with the interrupted 

 times to enjoy some petit employment.' In 1656, May 20, he was 

 elected master of the free grammar school at Henley. ' At length, 

 following the practice of physic, it fell to decay, and had not death 

 prevented justice, he would have been ejected.' He hath written 

 and published Comm. de .Ere vitali, &c, Oxon. 1680 [Bodl. 8o. 

 D. 23. Med.] Lugd. 3, edit. 1685. He died by a fall from 

 his horse on his return to Henley from the house of John Lord 



