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Christ. Egenolph, 1549, fol. 2nd edition, with Historiae 

 Stirpium (Lib. III.), Sylva, De Artificiosis Extractionibus 

 and Compositiones medicinales (the same volume also con- 

 tained Conrad Gesner's De Hortis Germanic, he editing the 

 work); Argentorati (Strasburg), Jos. Rihelius, 1561. Fol. 

 (2nd ed., 1563). 



98, 144. Curtius, Benedictus Symphorianus, author of 

 Hortorum Libri xxx. Lugduni, 1560. Folio. 



143. Diodati, Giovanni, b. Lucca, c. 1576. Protestant, 

 at age of 21 Professor of Hebrew at Geneva and (1619) 

 represented Clergy of Geneva at Synod of Dort; appointed 

 one of six to draw up Belgic Confession of Faith ; translated 

 Bible into Italian and French, and Father Paul's History of 

 Council of Trent into French ; d. 1649 at Geneva. 



89, 120, etc. Dioscorides, Pedacius (or Pedanius). Greek 

 writer on Materia Medica, b. at Anazarbus in Cicilia, and 

 lived in reign of Nero. Travelled in Greece, Italy, Asia 

 Minor and Gaul, and collected plants and information 

 (especially as to Indian medical plants), from which he 

 compiled his work on "Materia Medica" in 5 books, in 

 which 500 to 600 plants are described. For sixteen centuries 

 (to beginning of 17th century) this work was the authority 

 on Botany and the Virtues of Plants ; most celebrated MS. 

 of Dioscorides, the " Cantacuzene Codex" (quoted by 

 Mathiolus), is at Vienna, some of figures inserted by 

 Dodoens in Historia Stirpium, an MS. of 9th century in 

 Paris, used by Salmasius, has Arabic and Coptic names. 

 Edit. Princeps. published by Aldus, Venice, 1499, fol. 

 Paris, 1549, 8vo. Frankfurt, 1598, fol. Almost every 

 herbalist and botanist of note, especially Mathiolus, has 

 made commentaries upon Dioscorides. Last edition of 

 Greek text by Sprengel (Leipsic, Kiihn, 1899, 8vo.), also 



