LovelL ly^ 
qiieathed it by a deed of gift to Mr. Ash- 
.MOLE, who lodged in Tradefcanfs houfe. 
It afterwards became part of the AJhrnolean 
mufeumy 2.nA. the name of Tradescant 
was unjuflly funk in that of Afmole, John, 
the fon, died in 1662. His widow ereded 
a curious monument, in memory of the 
family, in Lambeth church yard, of which 
a large account, andengravings from a draw- 
ing of it in the Pepyjian library at Cambridge^ 
are given by the late learned Dr. Ducar- 
REL, in the 63d volume of the Phikfophical 
R. TURNER, CULPEPPER, 
and LOVELL, 
The influence of Aftrology in Phyfic and 
Botany, was far from being worn out in the 
middle of thi? age. By the credulity and 
fuperftition of fome, and the dillionefty of 
others, it ftill maintained its ground. Se- 
* The name Tradescantia was firft applied by 
Ruppius, a German, in his Flora Jenenfis^ to a plant 
introduced into the Englifh gardens, by Tradescant 
himfelf, and fufficiently known by the appellation of 
TradcfcanVs Spiderwort^ to which genus LiNNiEUS has 
fince reduced fix other fpecies. 
N z vera! 
