Titer Tena. 

 MrtthAobeL 





CmlXlufLus. 



T*o the dreader 



alfo tranflated into Englifh, which became the foundation of this prcfent Worke, as I 

 fhall (hew hereafter. It hath fincebeen printed in Latine, wiihthe addition of fome few 

 new figures -and of late in Dutch, \^&nn. 161 8>with the addition of the fame figures^and 

 mod of thefe in the Exoticks of Clufius^ and great ftore of orher additions. His general! 

 method is this ; firft he diuides his works into fix Pemptades or fiues : the firft Pcmptas 



th 



thou 



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bellifert. The third is De Radicibus^urgamibusherbi6 ) con t vchulis 7 deleterijs acp?rmciofispl 



tti^FilicibtiiJAnfcisfo Fungit.lhc fourth isDeFramentu^Leguminibus y faluJlribus^ aqu* 

 libm. The Rfrh y De oleribus & Carduis* The Rxt y I>e Fruxtcibus & Arboribus. The par ticu 



method is the fame vfed by our Author . 



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Materia medt 



Advcrfaria nova^ the chief end and intention whe 



Worke 



Author>whichis,put ting things together as they haue moft refemblance one with ano- 

 ther in external forme,beginning with Grafles 3 Cornes, &c. They giue few figures,buc 

 fomtimes refer you to Fuchfws,Dodon. & Matthiolus^yxxt where the figures war not giuen 

 by former Authors,then they commonly giue it • yet moft of thefe figures are very fmall 

 and vnperfc^by reafon(as I conjedure) they were taken from dried plants. In this work 

 they infi ft little vpon the vertues of plants ? but fuccin&ly handle Controuerfies,and giue 

 their opinions of p!ants,together with their defcriptions and names.which fomtimes are 

 in all thefe languageSjGreekjLatine^French^high & low Dutch^and En?iifl>otherwhile 



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(as I take it) 



H oft i ft mi s^ingli 



^yidverfa 



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moft part of the figures and vertues belonging to thofe herbs forrnerjy defcribed onJy in 

 the K^idverf. and to thefe alfo addes fome new ones not mentioned in the former worke. 

 After which he fet forth an Herbal in Dutch,wherein he comprehended all thole plants 

 that were in the two former Works 3 and added diuers other to them, the Worke contai. 

 ning fome 2 1 1 <> figures,which were printed afterward in a longifh form,with the Latine 

 namcs,and references to the Latine & Dutch books. After all thefe,at London,,**, itfoj, 

 he again fet forth the ^dverfaria, together with the fecond part thereof, wherein is con- 

 tained fome forty figures,being mod of them of Graffes and flouies,but the defcriptions 

 were of fome r 00 plants, varieties and all.To this he added a Trcatife of Balfam, which 



alfo was fet forth alone in quarte^n.i^^^ and the Pharmacopta of Rondelet itts y vi\ih An- 

 notations vpon it. He intended another great Worke,whofe title fhould haue bin Stirfu 



illujl 





pof< 



Clufh 



of the <^>4 dv er far i a, Mm 1 576, that learned diligent 



body 



Maximilian the fccond,be viewed Austria '< 



ereObfcruations,^».j58$.Healfotranfl 



"rta. and Chrifiepher A 'cofi vr,treating of the fii 

 $ Menardusytho writ of thofe of the Weft 

 Ms Spanifh and Pannonick Obferuations,wi 



fix books, intituled Rariorum Plant arum Hift 



the Works 



mntrttiiut. Appendix,a treatife of Mufhromes, fix Epiftles treating of plants.from 



John To**. 



an Italian phyfitian liuingat Cydonia in Candy ; as alfo the defcription of mount Bal- 

 dus,being a catalogue with the defcription and figures of fome rare and not before writ- 



K^inno 1 < 

 fix book 



) This fir ft Volume of ChCn 



th 



(Th 



,Woods,Barks,&c. as alfo the forenaraed tranllations otGarcias^coJla^d CMo* 

 Three Tra&sbefides of the fame UMonardus ; the firft, De Upide Bc7aar.(jr Herh 



Scorfittera, The fecond, De Fare & eius facnltatibm : The third, De Wr-e 6 



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To 





