LANDMARKS OF BOTANICAL HISTORY GREENE 26p 



NIGER. You advise well; this author alone suffices. 

 GALLUS. I have the two volumes of Brunfelsius. 

 CORDUS. If it please you, we will first enter this my little garden 

 by the house. 1 



The conversation carried on between the five friends while on 

 this botanical excursion constitutes the body of this rare booklet of 

 185 pages, and gives a clearer insight into the state of medical 

 botany in middle Europe in the time of Brunfels, Fuchs, and 

 Tragus, than could be gathered from the most exhaustive study of 

 those author's folios themselves. 



1 Botanologicon, pp. 26, 27. 



