CHAPTER III

TURNER'S HERBAL AND THE INFLUENCE OF THE FOREIGN HERBALISTS 75

William Turner--Cambridge with Nicholas Ridley--Travels abroad--Bologna--Luca Ghini--Conrad Gesner--Cologne--Appointed chaplain and physician to the Duke of Somerset--His early writings on herbs--Turner's Herbal--Illustrations--Characteristics of the book--Descriptions of herbs--North-country lore--Old country customs--Influence of the foreign herbalists on the later English herbals--Leonhard Fuchs--Rembert Dodoens--Charles de l'Escluse--Matthias de l'Obel--Lyte's translation of Dodoens' _Cruÿdtboeck_--Illustrations--_Ram's little Dodoen_.