165 
Vegetable Staticks (1727), described his own quantitative experi- 
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ments with plants. 
22. DioscoripEs, PEpAKIos ANAZARBEUS. 
[De materia medica libri sex. De venenatis animalibus libri 
duo| Venice, 1518. 
Second edition in Greek, printed in the famous Greek type of 
the Aldine press. 
This work was the foundation of medical practice for over fif- 
It lists and describes about six hundred plants, 
teen centuries. 
For a hundred years after the 
giving their medicinal properties. 
irst Latin edition appeared, the most important herbals were in 
a 
the nature of commentaries on Dioscorides. 
23. DopoNaAgEus, REMBERT. 
Cruydeboeck in den welcken die gheheele historic, dat es tghe- 
SIGGNb se woot 
First edition. 
Dodonaeus’s most important book, which was translated and re- 
issued many times. Meyer says: * This fortunately very unessen- 
tial edition is one of the greatest rarities of botanical literature.” 
24+. Doponartus, REMBERT. 
A Niewe herball, or historie of plantes: wherein is contayned 
all sortes of herbes and plantes 1S7S: 
First edition in English. Translated by Henry Lyte, and some- 
times known as “ Lyte’s herbal.” 
The most important herbal in English, until Gerarde’s in 1597, 
which was translated from the [atin edition of this same work. 
25. EVELYN, JOHN. 
Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees. 1664. 
First edition. 
A work of the utmost importance, and the first to be printed by 
order of the Royal Society. 
26. Fucus, LEONHARD. 
De historia stirpium comimentarti insignes maximis. 1542. 
First edition. 
The third and youngest of the German “ Fathers of Botany.” 
This, his principal work, contains over five hundred magnificent 
