7^ C H A P T E R 5- 
The lall-mentioned is feveral times introdu'* 
ced in the body of the work. I can fcarcely 
doubt that he was John Falconer, who 
is recorded as having communicated many 
Enghih plants to Amatus Lusitanus, 
who taught phyfic at Ferrara and Ancona^ 
and made him.felf known as a commentator 
on DioscoRiDEs in 1553. In treating on 
the Glaux, of which Turner gives a new 
figure, he fays, He never fav/ it in 'Eng-* 
landy except in Mafter Falcojier^ book ; 
and that he brought it from Italy ^ From, 
this and other Hke citations, it may reafon-^ 
ably be conjedtured, that " Falconers Book'*, 
was an Horttis Siccus ; and if fo, muft have 
been among the earliefi: coUediions of that 
kind, that is noticed in Fngland. 
In appreciating the merit of Dr. TuR-t 
NER as a Botanift, due regard muft be had 
to the time in which he lived 5 the little 
affiftance he could derive from his contem- 
poraries, of whom, Brunsfelsius, Ruel- 
Lius, FucHsius, and Tragus, when he 
publifhed his firft part of the " Herbal,'' 
were the chief 5 in which view^ he will ap- 
pear 
