l8o HISTORY OF ESSEX BOTANY. 



a total of 21 16 figures, under the name Kvuydthoeck. A copy of 

 this edition with the figures coloured is now in the Musee 

 Plantin-Moretus at Antwerp. At the same time an impression 

 of the icons, with 75 additional ones, was printed in an oblong 

 quarto, and in 1591 this was reprinted with " an index, in seven 

 languages, which rendered it a very popular book for many 

 years."" In 1592 Lobel went to Denmark in the train of Queen 

 Elizabeth's ambassador, Lord Edward Zouch, and, apparently 

 after this, he had the charge of a physic garden at Hackney, of 

 which Lord Edward paid the expenses. He obtained the title 

 of Botanographer to King James I, published a second edition 

 of the Advevsavia in 1605, and died at Highgate, 3rd March, 1616. 

 He had a daughter married to Mr. James Cole or Coel, " a 

 merchant of London, a lover of plants, and very skilful in the 

 knowledge of them," to whom we owe the introduction of the 

 cherry-laurel [Cevasus laiiyo-ceyasus). \s Cole lived at Highgate, 

 Lobel may have spent his last years in his daughter's house. It 

 is also nearly certain that Paul de Lobell, the apothecary of 

 Lyme Street who married the sister of Dr. (afterwards Sir 

 Theodore) Mayerne, physician to James 1., and who was 

 employed to give the poison to Sir Thomas Overbury in 1615, 

 was a son of the botanist. " Lobel had meditated a very large 

 work, which was to have borne the title of lllustratwnes 

 Plantarum ; but he lived not to finish it. Some of his papers fell 

 into the hands of Parkinson, and were incorporated into his 

 Theatrmn. A fragment of the above-mentioned work was pub- 

 lished by Dr. How, in 1655 ; which contains the descriptions of 

 many grasses, and other plants newly discovered, or lately intro- 

 duced. Of the grasses, many here recorded were first dis- 

 covered by Lobel. The preface contains some severe censures 

 on Gerard, and reflexions on the treatment Lobel had received 

 from booksellers ; all written in a style very reprehensible in a 

 man of letters."^'' Even a somewhat partial biographer, M. 

 Edouard Morren, is compelled to admit that " Son caractere 

 personnel, entache de jactance et d'orgueil, perce trop souvent 

 dans ses ecrits."^= Lobel's undoubted additions to our Essex 

 list are mainl}' in this fragment of the Illustvatioues, though there 

 is one other on which I must give a few details. In Parkinson's 

 Thcatvum, pp. 1234 and 1236, appears the following record : — 



33 Pulteney, cp. at. p. 105. 



34 Pulteney loc. cit. 



35 Matthias de I'Obel, sa vie et ses ceiivres. 



