To the c R^ader 



times with theiretymologies,asalfo the German and French names,thcn the k 



that rhc form,the place, time, temperature, then the venues ; firft out of the Antlenttas 



BiefondesfiAle^pimy&cAnd fornetimes from the late writers,whom he doth not parti 



cuUri^butexpreffesingencrall/xm^/w-;^. HisWorkevvasfetforthatB.afiIi 5 A2 

 m /^/.containing 5 1 6 figures , alio they were fee forth in ofavo, the hiftorie firft Vitb 



al the ngures by themfelues together at the end.with the Latine and high Dutch names' 



About this time and a little after flourifhed Conrade Gefrser^ Germanepbyfirian alfo! emu 

 who fct forth diners things of this nature,but yet lined not to finifh the great and general ** r - 

 YV ork of plants,which he for many yeres intended^nd about which he had taken a great 

 deale of pampas may be gathered by his Epiftles. He was a very learned,painf«IJ honeft 

 and ludieious writer as may appeare by his many & great works^hereof thofe of Plants 

 was firft a bnefe alphabetical! biftorv of nlants wirhnnr Gm,™ «,»i,„ M< 4 t - • . . 



*£?i»et<i 



*ftsts^Plim i (lr, 







a Venice , 54 i,«n a fmall form He fet forth a catalogue of platan Latine GreeThigh 

 D utcfa and French printed at Zurich, 1542. Alfoanaher traS Be Lun^s &JoY„tfn. 

 c uT '"'""Mhf™ P< I** i Lucernatum defcripione, Am. 1 5 5 , . in nJrto He alfo L 

 forth the foure books of ^^C^(^hoSiJinhi.dme)&hi,J^^.S 

 10 S I trausburgh , 56 r in/./ and to thefe he added a Catalogue of the Germane garoW 



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,<fc0 



Iiucd itf^i Utucerus a phydtianof Frankfi 





wa« rW« r,r.«^j ^ j . ;; i" 1 /" 1 "? U1 ri «»K«jra,wnoie natural biftorv L "»it*rm; 



7aa 7 £ P rintd '^ I5M ' and the fir ft P«c therebf isof plants,and fou<e vears after hi 

 added anothe r part thereto treating alfoof plants. I find no general methXbferued b$ 

 « im:b wh"particularmethodvfuallyi^ 



in Latine at Venice,with the fame figures, J. , « *8. After this he fSI!. • 

 in r «, with , 2 1 fmaller figures, flow thefe hfa C^SnttrfeTw wuZZESh* 

 hath in them deliuered the hiftory of many plants not a™Sto£3„?$?^]T 

 is mftlv reprehended by fome,for that he euery where ^^^^^^ 

 he lumfelfe runs into many errors. &fonwnf rf,«n»sifc.n * " ° .! .?„? w ™^vvben 



^fr^r W* 



fMaMarum.&cand falfified ot 

 »/far.his defcriprion,as when hee 



t 



defcribmg the plant he giues 5 and conferring it with the defcription of hisTut^Z 1 J 



CMatthblus . for as the one deceiued the World 



/«57. 



Worke of his) 



gthen his opinion , as Oara 

 " ,K: ^ *" th'mkesjMiiufif?. 



•SCXat^ 2 MeCh 'A n ' n u Bubant ' about *» ri *< ^n „ , , M , 



French,* 



iifhbyM' _ 



printed,but without figures.'ln 



»{/WMJUid within a tvhlU *«.„. 



r ~ ."v.uj, u Lugccucr n 



books,and fet them forth 



ra, Z>*6fl*aj fet forth in Latine his Frurum 

 wantiumjr Jdet trior urn bijtm*. And after- 

 id thofe his ater Worked diuided them 

 hgures,in/a/. An»,itf h This edicion wzs 



aifo 



