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Show Tothe Reader. To the Reader. ofthis prefent Worke, as I thall thew hereafter. Ichath fince beene printed in Lating, with the addition offome few newfigures: andof late in Dutch, Anno 1618.with theaddition ofthe famefigutes ; and moft ofthefe inthe Exoricks ofClafivs, and great ftore. of otheradditions,. His generall methodis this: firft he divides his Works into fix Pemptadesorfiues : the fifth Pemptas orfiue bookes ofthefe containe Plants inan Alphabeticall order, yet foas that other Plants that haueaffinitie with them are comprehended with them,though they fall nor into the order of the Alphabet. The fecond Pempt.containes Flores'Coronari, Plante odovate Gr vimbellifere. Thethirdis De Radicibus,Pureantibus Herbis, convolvalis, deleteris acperniciofis Plantis, Filicibus, Mufcisg EFwngis.: The tourth is De Frumentis, Leguminibus, paluftribus & aquatilibus: The fifth, De Oleribus G Carduis. The ola Fruticibus & Arberibus, The particular method is the fame vfed by our Au- Peter Pena. Matth.Lobel, thor. In the yeare 1570, Peter Penaand Matthias Lobel did here at London {et forth aWorke entituled Stirpium Aduer{aria wona; the chiefe end and intention whereofbeine tofind out the Materia medica ofthe Antients. The genecrall method is the fame withthat ofour Author, whichis, putting things together as they hane moft refemblance one with ano. ther in externall forme, beginning with Grafles, Cornes, &c. Theygiu e fewfigures,but fometimes tefer you to Fuchfine, Dodonent, and Matthialus : burwhere the figure was notgiven by former Authors, then they commonly giue it: yet moft pa go very {mall and vaperfedt, by. reafon (as I boaticdent) ey i ce In this Worke they.infift little vpon the vertues ofPlants, but fuccin@l y handle one \ uerfies, and giue their opinions ofPlants, together with their defcriptions and nam which fometimes are in all thefe languages, Greeke,Latine, French high and low D and Englifh : otherwhiles in but one or two ofthem, Some Writers forthis Wo ae them Doéti(imi Angli s yerneither of them were borne here, for Pena (as I take it) nd French man, and Lobe! was borne at Ryffelein Flanders , yet liued moft part of ities : ont ene oat a ae his dayes.. Inthe yeare 1576 he fer fonts bik tons, and ioyned them with the 4duer{ar i Worke: for in his Obferuationshe giues moft ped oe bi ate to thofe herbes formerly defcribed onely in the U4,duerfaria . and tothefealfo add:oa new ones not mentioned in the former Worke. After which he fet forth an Haba nts that were in the two former Workes, : . fome 2116 fi ures 5; WHI , ; : 2 printed afterwards in a longifh forme, with the ntaining Latine hames, and refere co sehi - wi = tineand Dutchbookes. : Afterall thefe at London,Azno 1605, he acai i ween pe with the fecond part thereof, whercin paieaine Carol.clufins, Honor.Bellus, yobn Pons. ‘ne os gures , being mo: of them of Graffes and Floures ; but the defcri ptions wer ee . eee and all. Tothis he added a Treati fe of Balfam (which alf eit de ps : 7 any ao 1598.) and the Pharmacopea ofRondeletins with Amant a fran ‘ abpeded dice anothe r great es Bo st VVorke . orke, whofe w title i fhould haue beene Stirpi iciam' nm tikn Ulp ome 11x yeares after the Edition ofthe zduer( ari 5 and laborious Herbarift Carol. Clufius {er forth eee Ot fe si canted shee pape trauelled ouera great part of Spai r niall Court by Maximili f fet forth his there Obferuatio t n, Anno 1 58 3. Healfo tranflate vcweeio ote. i rs _ hee ~~ 7 whow Acofta, treating of the ook ee oresconan rit ofthofe of the Weft Indie s. After this he aoline pt dara 7 a and Pannonicke Obferuatio ns, axe ain cee sion me other, and thofe he ratie RariorumPlavtarum Historia « whereto he alfe sad diteten Phoneme ee e e fix Epiftles treating of Plants,from Setotiss puke dus, being a Catalogue with dedceeitidentet o secapson Pout ten of Plants there Sowing, written by loha Pona an,A voh f ferip “ ersore .5 tion of‘ Poma’ a sswas afterwards wi is me Deith fome new v defcriptii Oo forth alone in Quarto, i y Wa ree figures fer CAnme 1601, in Folio -an : > vas printed in Antwerp, . a of ae cont forth in another volume matte r, as plant s, orfo ‘ruits,iThve Woods, Barks.ey & as r waded e Plate me parti me the forenamed tranflations aio ehee ee ? Searfenevis; THe teeond et 9 the fame Monard us : the fir, De lapide Bez “si*- ee3 ‘ 3 90S tins facultatibus The thi rd.De Ning G %ji ; xs,,. Y £ius commodis > To Tothefé he alfo added Bellonivs his Obferuations or Singularities,anid atra@ of the fame Author, De neglecta Stirpinmcultura, both formerly tranflated out of Frenchinvo Latine by him. Hewas borne at Atrebas or Arras, the chiefe city of Artois, dno 1526. and died at Leyden, Aon; 1609. After his death, by Everard Vorftius, Peter Paw, or fome others, were fet forth fome additions and emendationsofhis former Works,together with his funeral! Oration made by Vorstivs, his Epitaph, &¢. in Quarto, Cdvio 161 r, by the name ofhis Cure Poftertores. In the yeare 1583, Atdreas Cafalpinus an Italian Phyfition, and Profeffor at Pifa, fet Anadr.Cafaly, forthan hiftorieof Plants, comprehendedin fixteene bookes: his Worke iswirhout fi- gurcs; and’he oft times giues the Tu {cane names for Latine ; wherefore his worke is the moredifficult to be vnderftood, vnleffe it be by fuch as haue been in Tufcanie,orelfe are alreadywell exercifed in this ftudy.. He commonly in his owne words diligently for the moft part deferibes each Plant, and then makes enquirie whether they were knowne by the Antients: He feldome fets downetheir faculties, vnleffe of fome, towhich-former Writers ‘haue put downe'none. ‘Inthe firft-booke he treats of Plants in ‘generall , according as Theophraftws doth: but inthe following bookes hee handles them in particular: he maketh'thie chiefe affinity of Plants to confift in che fimilitude oftheir feeds and feed veflels, Iodchimus Gamerarius a Phy fition of Noremberg flourifhed about this time: Hee fet forth the: Epitome of ertatrhiolus, with fomeadditions and accurate figures, in Quarto, at Frankfort,'15 86: in the end ofwhich Worke (as alfo in that fer forth by -1taithiolus himfelfe)is-/ter Baldijor a journey from Verona to mount Baldus,written by Francs Calceolariusan Apothecarie of Verona.. Anothet Worke of Camerarius was his Hortus Me. dicus, beingan Alphabetical! enumeration of Plants, wherein is fet forth many things concerning the names, ordering, vertues, &c.ofPlants. ‘Tothis he anexed Hyrctnia Saxohotkurinzicd tobannis Thaly, or an alphabeticall Catalogue written by Tohn Thalius of fuch Toach. Camer- Fr.€alceol-v' v7 Tob.Th+! Plants as grew in Harkwald a part of Germanie betweene Saxony and Durengen. This was printed alfoat Frankfort in Quarto, 42. 1588)" » ; Has Inthe yéare 1587 cameforth the great Hiftorieof Plants printed at. Lyons, which is therefore vulgarly termed Historia Luedunenjis 2 it was' begun by Dalechampius : but hee Hig.Lugd dying before the finifhing thereof, one Joh Molinaus ferit forth, but put nor his name thereto, Itwas intended to comprehendall tharhad written before,and fo it doth, bur With a great deale of confufion; which occafioned Bauhine to write atrcatife of the errors committed therein, in which he fhewes there areabout foure hundred figures twice: or thrice ouer. ‘Thewhole number ofthe figures inthis Workeate 2686. This Hiftoryis diuided into eighteene bockes, and the Plants ineach bookeare put together either by the placesoftheir growings, as in Woods, copfes, mountaines, waterie places, &c. or by their external! fhape, as vmbelliferous, bulbous; &e. or by their qualities,as purging, poyfonous, &e. Herein are manyplaces of Theophra/tus and other antient Writers explained. He commonlyineach chapter giues the names; place, forme, vertue, as mott other do. And at the end thereofthere is an Appendix containing fome Indianplants, forthe moft part out of Acoffa; as alfo diuers Syrian and Egyptian plants deferibed by Reinold Rawelfe a Phy Gition of Ausburgh. G Leon.Rawelf At this time, towit Anmo 1588, Tacobus Theodorus Tabernamontanus {et forth an Hiftory Tabernamonts Of Plants inthe Germanetongue, atid fometwelueyeares after his Figures being in all 2087, werefet forth inalongforme,with the Latine and high-Durch namesput vnto them ; and with thefe fate Figures was this Worke ofour Author formerly printed. 7 ysa Phyfition of Padua in Italy, in the yeare 1592 fet fortha Treatife of fome Egyptian Plants, with large yetnot very accuratefigures: he there treats of fame 46 plants,andat the end thereof isa Dialogue or Treatife of Balfam. Some fixycares Profp.Alpinnss agone, A##zo 1627, his Son fer forth two bookes of his fathers, De Plantes Exotics ; with the figures cut in Braffe : this Worke containes fome 136 Plants. Fabins Columna a gentleman of Naples,of the houfe of Columaa of Rome,4x, 1592 fet forth a Treatifé called bafanos, or an ExaminationofPlants; for therein he examines andafferts fomeplants to be fuchiand fuch of the Antients :and in the end of this worke hegiues alfo the hiftorie of fome not formerly defcribed plants. Hee alfo fet forth: two other bookes, De minus cognitis, or of leffe knowne Plants : the firft of which was printed at Rome, Aino 1606 ; and the other 1416. He in thefe works, which in all contain little abouetwo hundredthirtyfix plants, fhewes himfelfea manofan exquific indgment, and verylearned anddiligent, ducly examining and weighing each circumftance ia the wri- tings of the Antients Cafpat Fab.Colemnds |