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276 OLD HEEBARIA.
present Lindleianus Lees, to which species silvaticus bears considerable
resemblance, although by its mode of growth it belongs
to another of Babington's groups.
Apart from the neighbourhood of Plymouth I have seen or
received this Bubm from the following places in England :—
E. Cornwall: Between Doublebois and Liskeard ; S. Neots
near Lavethan, Blisland.
S. Devon : Avon Valley, between S. Brent and Dartmoor
Koster Bridge, near Totnes ; Bovey Tracey ; Canon teign Down ;
Lustleigh.
iV. Devon : Lynton ; Herb. Rev. W. Moyle Rogers.
S. Wilts : Landport ; E. J. Tatum ; Herb. id.
Dorset : Gore Heath, near Wareham ; noticed here in company
with Dr. Focke and the Eev. W. Moyle Eogers in 1889.
Herb. W. P. Hiern.
Surrey : Sheen Common ;
Herts:
Salop :
Thieves Lane, Hertford; Rev. W. H. Coleman.
Hedge, Longwynd Hill, in plenty, 1886 ; Herb. Rev. W.
Moyle Roger's.
OLD HERBAEIA.
We take the following from an interesting paper by Mr. G. C.
Druce, published in the 'Pharmaceutical Journal' for January
last :
" The origin of the word herbarium, as applied to a dried collection,
is by no means certain. It is true we frequently meet with
the name in the older writers, but to them it meant a book about
plants, and generally an illustrated book. Tournefort alluded to
the ' Herbarium ' of Fuchs, when he referred to his ' Historia
Stirpium ; so too the '
' ' Herbarium of Mattioli did not refer to his
collection, but to his ' Commentary on Dioscorides.' But it is
evident that dried plants were sent by one botanist to another, for
Mattioli alludes in 1543 to plants that had been sent to him; but
whether these were dried in bundles or fastened to paper is left uncertain.
It is probable that one of the earliest herbaria formed
was made by Luca Ghini, Professor of Botany at Bologna, about
1540. From a letter of Maranta to Mattioli it is evident that
Ghini sent several plants that were glued on paper and labelled to
Mattioli, very shortly after the publication of ' Mattioh's Commentary
' in 1548. Ghini died in 1556. Two pupils of his, Cesalpiui
and Aldrovaudi, made herbaria ; and our own countryman, Falconer,
who certainly had a Hortus Siccus between 1540 and 1547, was
probably also taught either at Bologna or Pisa by Ghini. In Wm.
Turner's ' Herbal,' when referring to Glaux, he says he 'never saw
it in England except in Master Falconer's book, and he brought it
from Italy.' Amatus Lusitanus, who was at Ferrara from 1540 to
1547, speaks of this book of Falconer's as a singular curiosity, such
as he had never seen before. No traces of this book, so far as we
know, exist.
" Aldrovandi, the pupil of Ghini, who died in 1605, left to the
University of Bologna a large quantity of curiosities, among which