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C H A P. 7* 
Lytc^ — Anecdotes of— Not an original writer in 
Botany- His Herbal a tranjlation from Clu- 
fius'j verfion (p/Dodoens — Small accejfion made 
to Englifti Botany by this work. 
L Y T E. 
J^^NRT Lyte, Efq; of an ancient fa- 
mily, at Lytes-Carey, in Somerfetjhire^ 
was the next after Turner who publiflied 
an Englifb Herbal. He was born in 1529, 
and became a ftudent at Oxford in the lat- 
ter end of Henry VIII. about the year 1 546. 
He afterwards travelled ; and at length re- 
tired to his patrimony, where, as Wood fays, 
by the advantage of a good foundation 
of literature made in the univerfity and 
abroad, he became a moil: excellent fcho- 
** lar in fcveral forts of learning." He was 
the author of various publications of the 
hiftorical kind, which are enumerated in the 
Athene Gxonienfes. He diqd at the age of 78, 
and 
