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duction to the knowledge of gathering plants. Upon the restoration of 
Charles the Second he was appointed Secretary to Dr. Brian Duppa, 
Bishop of Winchester, but died in the year 1662, at the early age of 361. 
His principal work was ddam in Eden, or Nature's Paradise, published 
in 1657, which was an account in English of the uses and descriptions of 
plants, drawn up in clear and simple language. Many testimonials are 
prefixed to it. The writer of one says :— 
‘In yew there’s poison, though there’s none in you,’ 
and finishes his lay with— 
‘Tle say no more, your hooks themselves will prove, 
And any garden yield you verdant bays, 
And they that find the good, with all their souls 
Will wish Newcastle may send al] such Coles.’ 
The Botanical Garden is often alluded to by Wm. Coles, who acknow- 
ledges the assistance he has had from Mr. Steevens, Principal of Hart 
Hall, and Mr. Browne (joint author with Bobart of the garden catalogue), 
and other eminent botanists of the University. The districts visited by 
Coles are principally round Oxford and Adderbury, and altogether he gives 
localities for 31 species not previously recorded :—Drosera (now extinct), 
Melilotus altissima, Astragalus glycyphyllus, Alchemilla vulgaris, Poten- 
tilla Tormentilla, Cotyledon (from Merton College, where it is no longer 
found), Sanicula, Bupleurum, Sambucus Ebulus, Galium cverum, Inula 
Helenium, Campanula glomerata, C. Trachelium, Digitalis, Clinopodium. 
vulgare, Myosotis palustris, M. arvensis, Lysimachia Nummularia, L. ne- 
morum, Anagallts arvensis, Fagus, Juniperus, Habenaria bifolia, Ophrys 
apifera, Trichomanes, Polypodium vulgare, Ophioglossum, Chara vulgaris, 
Erythrea Centaurium. 
In 1656, Dr. Christopher Merrett published the Pinaz Rerum Natu- 
ralium Britannicarum, based on How’s Phytologia, but to which 200 
plants are added. Merrett was born in 1614 and took his D.M. at Oxford 
in 1642. He was one of the earliest members of the Royal Society and 
formed a herbarium which is now preserved in the Sloane collection. In 
the ‘Pinax,’ Lonicera, Silene puberula, Enanthe fistulosa, Trifolium pratense, 
Caucalis daucoides, Ceratophyllum, Centaurea Cyanus, Erigeron acre, 
Hottonia, Potamogeton sp., Orchis militaris, Neottia, Epipactis palustris, 
Colchicum, Carex pulicaris, C. echinata(?), Lolium, Ophrys aranifera, 
Symphytum, and Botrychium are new to the Oxford list; but there is 
considerable difficulty in correctly identifying his record with modern 
names. 
Dr. Robert Plot is the next writer in chronological order to refer to. 
He was born in 1641, at Sutton-Barn, Borden, Kent; and educated at 
Magdalen Hall, Oxford, took his M.A. in 1664, and in 1671 his LL.D. 
1 Rees’ Cyclopedia. 
