MORANDl's ' HISTORTCA BOTANICA PBACTICA ' 213 



A careful examination of the volume has led to its rearrangement 

 and has brought to light various details which seem of sutficient 

 interest to place on record. 



I. The Author. 



Apart from his published work, which will be considered later, 

 little is known of Morandi beyond the brief account given by Saccardo 

 (Xa Botanica in Italia, i. 118) : — 



" MoRAXDi (Gio. Battista), cavaliere milanese sulla meta del 

 sec. xviii : pittore e botanico, delineo le tavole di alcuni fra i primi 

 volumi della ' Iconographia taurinensis,' che si conserva presso I'orto 

 botanico di Torino e ben 13 vol. di tavole di una ' CoUectio plantarum 

 quae in diversis Europai Africie Asite et Americse locis nascuntur,' che 

 si custodisce nella biblioteca del collegio Ghislieri di Pa via." To this 

 is added a reference to his Hisforia Botanica Practica and (ii. 75) a 

 mention of a portrait — "Acquar. nell' ist. bot. di Bologna. Kiprod. 

 fot." 



It is not clear whether Prof. Saccardo has himself seen these 

 unpublished works, of which Morandi, in the address to the reader 

 prefixed to his Historia, gives the following fuller account : . 



" 1. Exterarum & Bariorum Plantarum, quae in Horto Regie 

 Taurinensis excoluntur. Imagines ad vivum expressae a Joanne 

 Baptista Morandi Mediolanensis, in tribus Voluminibus in f ., atque in 

 Biblioteca Regiae Universitatis ad commune commodum locatae. 



" II. CoUectio Plantarum, quae in diversis Europae, Africae, Asiae, 

 & Americae locis nascuntur, graphice delineatarvun, expressarumque 

 a Joanne Baptista Morandi Mediolanensi una cum variis illarum 

 nominibus justa CeleberrimosIleiHerbariae Scriptores: Volumina XIII 

 in f., quae in insigni Ghisleriorum Collegio Papiensi asservantm'." 



Prior to the publication of the Historia, Morandi issued a 

 pamphlet which is entered in Pritzel as :— " Osservazioni intorno al 

 sinonimo alfabetico dell' erbe piii usuali, che si legge neU' antidotario 

 Milanese. -Milano, 1743. 4". 8 p. 1 tab." This was attacked by 

 Cesare Carini in a pamphlet published in the same year, to which 

 Monardi replied in a " Biposta " of 24 pages defending his work. 

 According to Haller (Bibl. Bot. ii. 337, where the name is printed 

 "Canni") Carini pursued his attack in a pamphlet "In confirmazione 

 per dimostrare gli errori del Monardi nella riposta." I do not Hnd 

 Carini's name in Saccardo nor in any book I have been able to consult. 



II. The ' Htstorica Botanica Practica.' 



Of this the following description is given by Haller (Bibl. Bot. ii. 

 337) :— 



" tT. BapfistcB Morandi Hisforia medico-practica plantarum, 

 qu<s ad medicinam pertinent, ^IxuVuA^n. kwwo 1744 fol. recuso'anno 

 1761, fol. nihil mutata Comm. Lips. Icones omnium ])lanturum in 

 medic ina receptarum, neque optima;, neque malse tamen ; dcscriptio, 

 locus natalis, turn virium medicarum indicatio. Tabulae 68, plantae 

 circa 800." 



The first edition was printed and published at Milan by Peter 



