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B. DAYDON JACKSON-ADDRESS : 
a London publisher has seen his way to prepare a reprint, repro¬ 
duced by a photographic process. Eleven years later the same 
Parkinson brought out his ‘ Theatrum botanicum,’ in which are 
given records for three Herts plants, Specularia hyhrida from 
Hatfield, Gentiana Amarella at Gorhambury, and Malaxis paludosa 
between Hatfield and St. Albans, the last being the only record 
for a plant which has never been found again. 
Next in order we have a man who may be termed a naturalist 
in spite of himself, the famous Izaak Walton; the plants he 
mentions as growing in the Lea valley are alluded to in Pryor’s 
‘ Flora ’ at p. xxxix. Incidentally one of the names he made 
use of has caused much discussion as to the plant itself intended, 
but I have very little doubt that “ Culverkeys ” refers to the wild 
hyacinth, Scilla nutans. Three years after the appearance of the 
first edition of the classic ‘ Compleat Angler,’ William: Coles, 
Herbalist, as he styles himself on the title-page of his larger book, 
brought out his ‘ Adam in Eden, or Natures Paradise.’ In common 
with many contemporary authors, the volume displays an in¬ 
ordinately long statement of what it is and what it professes to 
set forth. I have brought the book to exhibit, and from it we 
have 25 records which have not been incorporated in our county 
annals. The book is further noteworthy for its most extraordinary 
pagination, of which no idea can be given save by appending 
a collation, and to make the story complete I give also the full 
title of the work— 
1 Adam in Eden : or Natures Paradise. The History of Plants, 
Fruits, Herbs, and Flowers. With Their several Names, whether 
Greek, Latin, or English; the places where they grow; their 
Descriptions and Kinds; their times of flourishing and decreasing; 
as also their several Signatures, Anatomical appropriations, and par¬ 
ticular Physical Virtues; Together with necessary Observations on 
the seasons of Planting, and gathering of our English Simples : 
with Directions how to preserve them iu [sic] their Compositions or 
otherwise. A Work of such a Helmed andDseful Method, that the 
Arts of Physick and Chirurgerie are so clearly laid open, that 
Apothecaries, Chirurgions, and all other ingenious Practioners, may 
from our own Fields and Gardens, best agreeing with our English 
Bodies, on emergent and sudden occasions, compleatly furnish 
themselves with cheap, easie, and w'holsome Cures for any part of 
the Body that is ill-affected. For the Herbarists greater benefit, 
there is annexed a Latin and English Table of the several Names 
of Simples; With another more particular Table of the Diseases 
and their Cures treated of in this so necessary a Work.’ By William 
