55 
X, 
Ayris Stinking Gladen. 53. Iris fostidissima, Z. 
Xanthium The Clot Burre. 664,2. Xanthium Strumarium, Z. 
Xylon Bombast or Cotton tree. 753. Gossypium herbaceum, Z. 
“‘It groweth about Tripolis, and Alepo in Syria, from whence the Factor of a worshipfull 
merchant in London, Master Nicholas Lete before remembred, did send vnto his said Master 
diuers pounds weight of the seede, whereof some were committed to the earth at the impression 
hereof: the successe we leaue to the Lord. Notwithstanding my selfe three yeeres past did 
sowe of the seedes, which did grow very frankly, but perished before it came to perfection, by 
reason of the colde frostes that ouertooke it in the time of flowring.” Ger, I. ¢. 
Z. 
Zyziphus The Beade tree. 1306,1. Melia Azedarach, Z. 
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' Herbas, stirpes, frutices & arbusculas hoc Catalogo recensitas, quamplurimas ac fere omnes 
me vidisse Londini in horto Ionannis Gerarovi chirurgi & botanici per-optimi, (non enim omnes 
eodem sed varijs temporibus anni pullulascunt, enascuntur aut florent) attestor 
Matthias de Lobel. 
Ipsis Calendis Fulij. M.D. XCIX. 
Across this certificate a pen has been struck, and “ hzc esse falsissima ” [attestor] “ Matthias 
de Lobel,” written at the end, in all likelihood by Lobel himself, 
FINIS. 
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