To the Trader. 





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which they were taken,as in the chapter of Alehoofc:it may be they are not foperfe&as 

 they fhouldbeinibme very few other placcs,(for I could not compare all) but if you 

 fufpeft any fuch thing,baue recourfe to that Author,and you fhall find full fatisfaftion. 

 Now come I to the Temper and Vertucs. Thefe commonly were taken forth of the 

 fore-mentioned Author, and here and there out of Lobtls Obferuations, ond Camcrarius 

 his HortuA medicus. To tbefe he alfo added fome few receipts of his owne : thefe I hauc 

 notaltcred,but here and there fhevved towhich they did moft properly belong; as alfo 

 if I found them otherwife than they ought, I noted it 5 or if in vnfit places, I haue tranf- 

 fen ed them to the right p!ace,and in diuers things whereof our Author hath been filent, 



I baue fupplied that defedt. 



For my additions I will here fay nothing,but refer you to the immediate infiiing Ca- 



talogue,which will in forme you only what is added in figure, or defcription,or in both, 



by which, and thefe two formerly mentioned markes, you may fee what is much altered 



or added in the Worke/or this marke t put either to figure,or before any claufe,fbews it 



to haue bin other wife put before-or that claufe whether it be in defcription, Place, Time,, 



Names,or Vertues to be much altered. This other marke % put to a figure rtiewes it not 



to hauc been formerly in the worke^but now added • and put in any other place it fhewes 



ail is added vntill you come to another of the fame marks. But becaufe it is fometimes o- 



mitted, I will therefore giue notice in the Errata where it fhould be put, in thofe places 



where I obferue either the former or later of them to be wanting. 



Further,! muft acquaint you how there were the defcriptions of a few plants here and 

 there put in vnfitting places,which made me defcribe them as new added,as Saxifraga ma- 

 tor CMatthioli, Perf/carra fil?quofa y of which in the chapter ofPerftcaria there was an ill de- 

 fcription,but a reafonable good one in the chapter of Ajlrantia mgra.Papduer JJ>wofum,wa$ 

 figured and defcribed amOngft the Cardui j now all thefe(as I faid) I added as new in the 

 mo ft fitting places : yet found them afterwards defcribed, but put them out all, except 

 the laft, whole hiftory I ftill retained, with a reference to the preceding figure and Hi- 

 ftorie. Note alfo,wherefoeuer my Author formerly mentioned Clufitts^ according tohis 

 Spanifhor Pannonickc Obferuations J haue made ^according to this Hiftorie, which 4 

 containes them both with additions. . 



Alfo I muft certifie you, becaufe I know it is a thing that fome will thinkc ftrange, 

 that the number of the pages in this booke do no more exceed that of the former(confi- 

 dering there is fuch a large acceflionof matter and figures) the caufe hereof is, each page 

 containes diuers lines more than the former, the lines thcmfelues alfo being longer ; and 

 by the omiffion of defcriptions and figures put twice or thrice oucr,and the Kinds,vniie- 

 ceffarily put in fome places, I gained as much as conueniently I could, being defirous 

 that it might be bound together in one volume* 



Thus haue I (hewed what I haue performed in this Worke,entre&ting you to take this 

 my Labor in good part ; and if there be any defeft therein (as needs there muft in all hu- 

 mane works) afcribe it in part to my hafte and many bufinefles, and in fome places to the 

 want of fufficient information, efpccially in Bxotickc things ; and in otherfome, to the 

 little conuerfation I formerly had with this Author, before fuch time as (ouercome by 

 the importunitie of fome friends, and the generall want of fuch a Worke) I tooke this 

 taskevponme. Furthermore I defire^hat none would rafhly cenfurc me for that which I 

 hauc here done;but they that know in what time I did it.and who themfelues are able to 

 do as much as I hauc here performed ; for to fuch alone I (hall giue free liberty, and will 

 be as ready toyeeld further fatisfa&ion if they defire it, concerning any thing I hauc 

 here afferted, as I fhall be apt toneglett and fcorne the cenfurc of the Ignorant and Vn- 

 learned, who I know are ftill forward to veri fie our Englifti prouerbe * "ufata fatt 



I muft not in filencc paflfe ouer thofe from whom I haue receiucd any fauour or incou- Ufigneficn 

 rage ment, whereby Imi^htbe the better enabled to performethis Taske. Inthefirft 

 place let me remember the only Affiftant I had in this Worke,which was M r lohn Goodyer 

 of Maple Durham in Hampfhire, from whom Ireceiued many accurate defcriptions, 

 and fome other obferuations concerning plants • the which (defirous to giue euery man 

 hisdue) Ihaue caufed tobe foprinted,asthey maybediftinguirticd from thereft:and 

 thus you fhall know them • in the beginning is the name of the plant in Latine in a line 

 by it felfe,and at the end his name is inferted j fo that the Reader may eafily finde thofe 

 things that I had from him,and I hope together with me will be thankfull to him,that he < 

 would fo readilv impart them for the further increafeof this knowledge. 



WGcorve Bowles of Chiflelhurft in Kent muft not here be forgot, for by his trauells 

 and induftry I haue had knowledg of diuers plants^which were not thought nor formerly 



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