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restricted the uame "Daisy" to the cultivated purple-flowered 

 piaut that was raised in gardens. The booklet was in Latin, 

 and was printed in London by " ioannem Bydellum," in 

 the year named. Six years later the same book, enlarged, 

 was printed at Cologne; and in 1648 the third edition was 

 published in England. It is described at page 301 of the 

 volume of the Club's Proceedings for 1880, but by a clerical 

 or printer's error the date is then given as 1518 instead of 

 1548, In it he says: — 



" Orobanche is so rare an herbe in Englande that I never sawe it 

 in al Bnglande but in Northnmberlande, whereas it was called Newe 

 Chappel floure. It may be of hys propertie called chokeweede, because 

 it destroyeth and choketh the herbes that it tyeth and claspeth with 

 his roote. It is coulde and dry in the first degree." 



lu 1551 Turner's "New Herball" was printed and published 

 in London, and in 1562 "The Seconde Parte of William 

 Turner's Herball" was imprinted at Collen (Cologne.) Therein 

 he describes and discusses Orobanche at great length. These 

 two extracts are of interest; the first showing that between 

 1548 and 1562 he had personally examined the botany of 

 other parts of England, and the second because it indicates 

 the meaning and derivation of the word Orobanche: — 



" The herbe which I have taken and taught these xv yeres ago to 

 be Orobanche, which also now of late yeares Matthiolns hath set 

 oat for Orobanche, groweth in many places of England, bothe in the 

 north countre besyde Morpethe, whereas it is called our lady of New 

 Chappellis flour, and also in the south countre a lytle from Shene 

 in the broum closes. But it hath no name there." 



Writing upon the propertie of Orobanche, he argues at 

 length against Matthiolus, who had said that "Orobanche 

 killeth pulses only with hys presence." Turner declares that 

 is against "reson, autorite, and experience." Having dealt 

 with the "reson" of the question, he proceeds to the 

 "autorite" to which the dictum of Matthiolus was opposed. 

 It was that of Dioscorides himself, who, according to Turner, 

 sayeth : — 



" It is playn that Orobanche groweth amongst pulses and that it 

 choketh or strangleth them, whereupon it hatb gotten the name 

 Orobanche or Orobstrangler." 



Orobanche is thus derived from opo^os pulse, and aiyx^^t^ 

 to strangle. 



