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troduce it into this country, as a specific in 

 disorders of the spleen. Camden, in his Life 

 of Elizabeth, notices that the tamarisk was 

 first brought into England by Archbishop 

 Grindal ; and in the Remembrances for 

 Master S., by Richard Hakluyt, 1582, we are 

 told, likewise, that " when this archbishop re- 

 turned out of Germany, he brought into this 

 realm the plant of tamariske from thence, 

 and this plant he hath so increased, that there 

 be here thousands of them ; and many people 

 have received great health by this plant." * 



Dr. Turner writes fully on this plant, in his 

 Herbal, that was published in 1568 ; when it 

 appears to have been unknown in this coun- 

 try ; for he observes, u It may be named, in 

 English, Tamarisk, because, as we want the 

 bushe, so also we have no name for it in 

 England." This author tells us, that he " saw 

 it in diuerse landes in Italy, in an yland be- 

 twene Francolino and Wenish, in Germany, 

 in diuerse places about the Ren, not far from 

 Strasburg ; and in Rhetia, in a stony place, 

 som tyme of yeare used to be ouerflowen with 

 the Rhene." 



Gerard notices, that it grows in Germany, 

 Spain, Italy, and in Greece ; and he tells us, 

 that both species of this plant grew in his gar- 

 den in 1 596. 



* Voy. i.- 161. edit. 1599. 



