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autograph, in which more than a score of Parkinson's errors are 

 pointed out. 



The remainder of Lobel's materials and the manuscript of his 

 projected Stirpium Ilkistvationes have now been bound in three 

 volumes, for convenience in handling. 



Volume I contains the classification and description of 223 kinds 

 of grasses. Lobel had evidently become acquainted with a great 

 many more species than the some forty-five he knew when he 

 printed his Historia plantariim in i576. But evidently the very 

 novelty of the newer descriptions has brought about the spoiling 

 of the MS. — from which How cut out accounts of ninety-eight 

 different grasses, for his book printed in 1655. 



Lobel had evidently worked hard at his grasses. The different 

 kinds described have been numbered and renumbered in some 

 cases four times over, and many alterations have been made in 

 the MS. 



The last fourteen leaves of this volume are from a pasted-up 

 copy of the Adversaria which has been much cut about. 



Vols. 2 and 3 are built up out of a further portion of the 

 pasted-up copy of the Adversaria, the leaves of two copies of the 

 1576 edition being pasted on leaves of paper. The greater part 

 of the text has been struck out, and marginal references to the 

 pages of the Observationes, 1576, have been added. In vol. 2 

 the leaves have been roughly numbered by How (?) i to 134, and 

 in vol. 3 the leaves run from i-i,^ to 251. The plants are numbered 

 up to No. 835. 



Between the leaves so prepared he intercalated the leaves of 

 a printed copy of the Observationes (edit. 1576), and between them 

 again the illustrations from his 1591 edition of Icones Stirpitim 

 printed by Plantin. In many cases the page-margins are filled 

 with Lobel's additional MS. notes on the plants. 



There are no references to Goodyer, nor traces of his handwriting, 

 on these Lobel MSS. 



vii. William Mount and his Records of Kentish 

 Plants in 1582-4. 



Among the books in the Goodyer Library are two editions 

 of the Icones Stirpitim by Lobel, printed by the Plantin press. 

 The earlier copy of 1581, according to a note on the title-page, was 

 purchased by ' Gulielmus Mowntuus ' for 19 shillings on May 20, 

 1582. This note was written by Mount himself, and his initials, 

 'W. M.', are stamped upon the leather binding. Several notes, 



