372% FLORA OF OXFORDSHIRE. 
those in the octavo edition of Fuehius. Of the 512 plates in that book 
Turner has used upwards of 400, adding about 90 new ones. In some 
instances the figures have been misapplied and in a few cases no de- 
scription of the plate is given. Master Falconer is several times mentioned 
in the Herball. ‘I can scarcely doubt,’ says Petiver, ‘that he was John 
Falconer who is recorded as having communicated many English plants to 
Amatus Lusitanus who taught Physic at Ferrara and Ancona. In treating 
of Glaux, of which Turner gives a new figure, he says he never saw it in 
England except in Master Falconer’s book, and that he brought it from 
Ttaly.” This book was probably a Hortus Siccus*. Falconer sent Turner 
the record of Anemone Pulsatilla from Oxfordshire. Turner died in 1568 
and was buried in St. Olave’s, Hart Street. From Fasti Oxonienses we 
learn that he married the daughter of a Cambridge alderman, by whom 
he had a son Peter, who was educated at Cambridge and incorporated at 
Oxford in 1599, where his son also named Peter was Professor of Geometry 
in 1649. 
The next Oxford records are given in the Herball or general historie of 
plants gathered by John Gerarde of London, printed in 1597. Gerarde 
was born at Nantwich in 1545, he lived in Holborn within the suburbs of 
London, where he had a large Botanic Garden. His additions to the 
Oxfordshire Flora are Scrophularia nodosa from Stow Wood, Leonurus 
eardiaca, now extinct, and Sagitta sagittifolia, which he reports as growing 
‘in ditches neere the walls of Oxford.’ Gerarde died in 1607. 
In 1633 Gerarde’s Herball was re-edited and almost rewritten by Thomas 
Johnson, who was born at Selby in Yorkshire, about the beginning of the 
seventeenth century. In 1629, when an apothecary in London, he 
published his first work Iter Plantarum Investigationts ergo susceptum a 
decem sociisin Agrum Cantianum, which is the first printed description of 
a botanical excursion in England?. In 1633, as above stated, he published 
The Herball, in which, according to Pulteney, 800 new plants are added 
and 7oo figures. Ray well designated the work as Gerarde Emaculatus. 
In 1643 the degree of D.M. was conferred on Johnson at Oxford. In the 
Parliamentary wars he became Lieutenant-Colonel to Sir Marmaduke 
Rawdon, and at the siege of Basing House received a shot in the shoulder, 
from which he shortly after died in 1644. ‘He was no less eminent in 
the garrison for his valour and conduct as a soldier, than famous through 
the kingdom for his excellency as an herbalist and physician *. 
Habenaria viridis is said in Johnson's Mercurius to occur on the Bark- 
way near Oxford, and two plants are included in his Gerarde which are 
additions to our Flora, Stachys germanica from near Witney, where it still 
occurs, and Lythrum Hyssopifolia from Dorchester, now lost. Neither of 
these were personally found by Johnson. 
1 Pulteney’s Sketches. 
2 Trimen and Dyer’s Flora of Middlesex. 
® Description of the Siege of Basing Castle, Oxford, 1644. 
