378 FLORA OF OXFORDSHIRE. 
was thus enabled to embellish his work with 3384 plates of plants, the 
figures being chiefly copied from other authors. The new plates are 
principally made by Bobart in the latter part of the work. The Mosses, 
Fuci, Corallines and Corals are, with the exception of a few woodcuts in 
Gerarde, the first of the kind engraved in England. Morison was killeds in 
1683, by a hurt from the pole of a coach as he was crossing a street in 
London. There is a memoir of him in the Historia Universalis. He 
added but little to our knowledge of Oxford plants, very few localities 
being given in his volume of the Historia, and these were chiefly obtained 
from Bobart. Morison describes Ononis campestris, Geranium lucidum 
and Lychnis diurna, new to our Flora, and, on the authority of Mr. Bobart, 
Samolus Valerandi, Geranium columbinum and G. rotundifolium. 
On the death of Morison, in 1683, Jacob Bobart, junior, succeeded to 
the botanical chair; he was born in 1640, and was employed by his 
father in the gardens. He was a good worker in local botany, and added 
many species to the Oxford Flora. He sent a considerable number of 
records to Ray, which were inserted in his Historia and Stirpium. Bobart 
prepared a Hortus Siccus in 20 volumes, which in 1885 was in existence in 
the Oxford collection. The Morisonian Herbarium, which is still preserved 
at Oxford was probably formed in great part by Bobart. In 1699, he 
published the third volume of Morison’s history, in which are inserted 
Bobart’s discoveries, the ‘grasses’ and ‘sedges’ contain many of these, 
and some of the figures are very characteristic. Sherard complains of his 
errors in the Mosses, see Richard's Correspondence, p. 134. Bobart’s 
additions to our Flora are Helleborus viridis, Myriophyllum alterniflorum, 
Heracleum Sphondylium var. Tordylium (now extinct), Galium tricorne, 
Mentha sativa (?), Stachys arvensis, Ajuga reptans, Ophrys muscifera, 
Orchis ustulata, Herminium, Ruseus, Carex dioica, C. ampullacea, C. 
vesicaria, Triticum caninum, Hordeum sylvaticum, Asplenium lanceo- 
latum (?), Aspidium aculeatum, Polypodium calearewm, Chara hispida (?), 
Senecio campestris, Atra flexwosa. He also contributed to Ray records of 
Thlaspi perfoliatum, Tilia grandiflora, Leontodon, Phragmites, Bromus 
erectus, which appear in the first edition of the Stirpium. Vicia angusti- 
Jjolia var. Bobartii, Rubus leucocarpus, Pyrola, Polygonum lapathifolium, 
Brachypodium pinnatum, ete. to the second edition. Altogether Bobart 
added at least 40 plants to the Oxford list, several being new to the British 
Flora. A fourth volume on Trees was in contemplation, but he died 
without carrying it into effect. Dr. Grey, in his edition of Hudibras, 
relates that he transformed a dead rat into the feigned figure of a dragon, 
by thrusting in taper, sharp sticks which distended the skin, till it 
resembled wings, and altered its head and tail; which so imposed on the 
learned, that several fine copies of verses were written on so rare a subject ; 
and one of them sent an accurate (!) description of it to Dr. Malibrachi, 
librarian to the Duke of Tuscany. Bobart afterwards acknowledged the 
deception, but the animal was preserved for some time after in the 
