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### Author
Parkinson, John (1567-1650), British apothecary and herbalist; King's herbarist; had a garden in Long Acre, London.
**Abbreviated name**: *Jn. Parkinson* \[standard form in IPNI: *John Parkinson*\]
#### Herbarium and types
Unknown.
#### Bibliography and biography
AG 3: 21; Ainsworth p. 40, 309; Barnhart 3: 50; BB p. 236; Blunt p. 72-73, 102; BM 4: 1523; Bossert p. 301; Clokie p. 221; Desmond p. 479 (q.v. for secondary refs.); De Toni 1: xcvi; DNB 43: 35; Dryander 3: 60, 604; GR p. 409; Herder p. 83, 363; Jackson p. 28; Kew 4: 235; NI 1489-1490, 3: 54; Plesch p. 351; PR 6933-6934, ed. 1: 7748-7749; Rehder 1: 285, 530; Sotheby 584, 585; TL-2/4909; Tucker 1: 539-540.
#### Biofile
- Anon., J. Bot. 41: 254. 1903 (reprint Parad. terr. announced), 42: 32, 214, 320. 1904 (published).
- Arber, A., Herbals 32 \[index\]. 1953.
- Druce, G.C., Fl. Buckinghamshire Ixix-lxx. 1926; Fl. Northamptonshire xlv-xlvi. 1930.
- Ewan, J. & N., John Banister 482 \[index\]. 1970.
- Green, J.R., Hist. bot. 48-53. 1914.
- Gunther, R.T., Early Brit. botanists 265-271. 1922.
- Hadfield, M., Pioneers in gardening 19, 25-27. 1951.
- Hawksworth, D.L. & M.R.D. Seaward, Lichenology Brit. Isl. 2, 130. 1977.
- Kent, D.H., Hist. fl. Middlesex 13. 1975.
- Lange, C., Missouri Bot. Gard. Bull. 58(1): 4-10. 1970.
- Martin, W.K. & G.T. Fraser, Fl. Devon 769. 1939.
- Pearsall, W.H., Fl. Surrey 44. 1931.
- Pulteney, R., Sketches 1: 138-154. 1790.
- Raven, C.E., English natural. 248-273. 1947.
- Riddelsdell, Fl. Gloucestershire cix. 1948.
- Trimen, H. & W.T. Thistleton Dyer, Fl. Middlesex 372. 1869.
- White, J.W., Fl. Bristol 52-53. 1872.
- Wittrock, V.B., Acta Horti Berg. 3(2): 96. 1903 (on portr.).
- Wolley-Dod, A.H., Fl. Sussex xxxvi. 1970.
#### Eponymy
*Parkinsonia* L. (1753), *Parkinsona* Cothenius (1790).
#### Note
Author of *Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris* (1629) and *Theatrum botanicum* (1640), falling outside our period.