Lyte. 95 
tranflated by him from Clusius. It is this 
doubt that has induced me, not unfre- 
quently, to afcribe to Gerard, or John- 
son, the firft knowledge of many common 
plants certainly afcertained by them, that 
occur, never thelefs, in Lyte's work. 
This author furniflies very few obferva- 
tions which tend to illuftrate the ftate of 
the fcience, between the time of Turner 
and his own. Nor does he mention, in 
more than one or two inftances, any of his 
contemporaries. Under the article Verbaf* 
cum^ he fpeaks of the pleafant garden of 
James Champaigne^ the deer friende and 
lover of plantes but without any infor- 
mation of his charader, or place of abode; 
And, under that of Sweet Trefoil^ the 
garden of maifter Rich." 
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