viii PREFACE. 



by John Parkinson, Apothecary of London, and the King's 

 Herbarist. London, 1640." 



Albertus Magnus. " Alberti cognomento Magni . . . De 

 Virtutibus Herbarum, Lapidum et Animalium quorundam, 

 Jibellus. Item, De Mirabilibus Mundi, ac de quibusdam 

 effectibus causatis a quibusdam animalibus," etc. Lugduni, 



I5S3- 



Lupton. " A thousand Notable things of sundry sortes : 



Whereof some are wonderful], some strange, some pleasant, 

 divers necessary, a great sort profitable, and many very 

 precious." London, 1627. The first edition of this book 

 was published in 1595, the second in 1601. 



Hart. " KAINIKH, or the Diet of the Diseased ... by 

 James Hart, Doctor in Physicke." London, 1633. 



Evelyn. " Silva, or a Discourse of Forest-trees, . . . 

 Also Acetaria ; or a Discourse of Sallets, with Kalendarium 

 Horcense ; or The Gard'ner's Almanack ... by John 

 Evelyn, Esq.," etc. Fourth edition. London, 1706. 



The edition of Ben Jonson here quoted is the folio of 

 1692 ; that of Beaumont and Fletcher the folio of 1679. 

 The other plays cited are from modern reprints. 



I have to thank Mr. Mihill Slaughter for the care with 

 which he has photographed the woodcuts in the Hortus 



Sanitaiis. 



HERBERT W. SEAGER. 



HAMPTON COURT, 

 December, 1896. 



