252 LOBEL 



health was short, made a selection of Lobel's descriptions under the 

 title Stirpijtm Ilhistrationes ; phtriinas elaborantes inmiditas plaiitas 

 siibreptitiis loh: Parkinsoni rapsodiis {ex codice MS. insahtato) 

 sparsim gravatae. The work was printed by Thos. Warren for Jos. 

 Kirton of St. Paul's Churchyard in 1655.^ 



We have the original manuscript from which the book was 

 printed before us, with the excerpts from Lobel, with How's 

 additions pasted or pinned thereto, and the leaves of the MS. 

 exactly as they were marked for the compositor, and returned by 

 the printers to the editor. 



After How's early death on 30 Aug. 1656, his own annotated 

 copy of the Phyiologia passed to John Goodyer on 30 Apr. 1659, 

 and with it probably the Lobel MSS. as well, but too late for them 

 to be of real use, for Goodyer's working life was drawing to a close. 

 Except for their disarray through having been ungummed and 

 misplaced, we may assume the papers to be in the state in which 

 How left them. 



In this volume there are thirty-seven leaves. 



First comes the original imprimatur with the signatures of 

 Tho. Moundeford, the President of the College of Physicians, and 

 of eight other members. Then the Preface, with many lines erased 

 in Lobel's hand, and some eulogistic verses by Alexander Rhedus 

 of which the last eight lines were not printed. Next follow some 

 introductory remarks by How, and his Index and list of erratula 

 in his own hand. 



Then Lobel's descriptions of 223 kinds of plants, a large number 

 of which were apparently claimed by Parkinson as his own dis- 

 coveries. How's notes, which appear in small type near the margin 

 of his printed book, are intercalated in the Lobel MS., and show 

 that the selection and arrangement of the volume was entirely the 

 work of How, and not of Lobel. 



How evidently had Lobel's materials for the larger book before 

 him. He cut out the descriptions which appeared to him to be of 

 the greatest importance. There are also included original letters 

 from Joannes de Monnel'^ and from John Argent, dated 

 'Wood Street 2 June 1608', and also notes on various plants from 

 Montpellier communicated by, and apparently in the handwriting 

 of, Pellisscrius. At the end is one leaf of a\xai>T\]\xaTa in How's 



' John Goodyer received his copy on 19 February 1654. 



^ John Monnel of Tournay was a correspondent of Clusius. Parkinson 

 associates him with 'Anagallis tenuifolia fl. coeruleo ' which he received from 

 Cadiz and grew in his garden at Tournay. Theatrum, p. 559. 



