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49, Mattio“i, PreERANDREA. 
New Kreuterbuch. Mit dem 
Figuren aller Gewechse 
The first German edition. 
allerschonsten und artlichsten 
iSiios 
This, the second edition printed at Prague, contains a new set 
of large wood-cuts, very much more detailed than the earlier ones. 
90. MicHei, Pier ANTONIO. 
Nova plantaruin genera juxta Tournefortii methoduim dis posita. 
1729. 
First edition. 
Born at Florence, in 1679, Micheli was the Director of the 
Botanic Garden there. He was one of the earliest botanists to 
study mosses and the lower cryptogams, and endeavored to prove 
the presence of sexual organs in these plants. 
51. ParKINson, JOHN. 
Paradisi in sole, paradisus terrestris. 1629. 
First edition. 
Contains directions for the planting and care of gardens, with 
descriptions of a large number of plants then in cultivation, with 
their uses and virtues. Parkinson’s scheme of classification is 
not as good as Lobel’s. The title page contains an illustration of 
the fabled “ Seythian Lamb.’ The first three words of the title 
are a Latin pun on the author’s name. 
22. Piinius Secunbus, Cayus. 
Historia naturale in volgare tradotta per Christophoro 
Landino. 1534. 
A contemporary of Dioscorides, Pliny wrote an encyclopedic ac- 
count of the knowledge of his own times. 
number of plants, but only by way of other 
of original observation from nature. 
93. [James I. (of England) | 
Proclamation concerning starch 
He refers to a large 
authors, not because 
by the king. Given at 
Salisbury the 23. day of August, in the fifth yveere of our Reigne. 
1607. 
“ Corn,” ie., wheat, was too much needed for food to be wasted 
in making starch for ruffs and laces. 
Hence the laws and prohibi- 
tions concerning its making. 
