LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



Facing pa^e 



Herbs being dug up and made into Medicines under the direction 



OF A Sage ....... Frontispiece 



Aesculapius Plato and a Centaur from the Saxon Translation of 



THE '' Herbarium of Apuleius " . . . . . . lo 



Mandrake from a Saxon Herbal ....... 22 



(i) Artemisia and (2) Blackberry, from a Saxon Herbal . . 30 



From a Saxon Herbal 40 



Woodcut of Trees and Herbs from the Seventeenth Book of " De 



Proprietatibus Rerum " . . . . . . . .48 



Initial Letters from '' Banckes's Herbal " 56 



Woodcut from the Title-page of the " Crete Herball " (1526) . 64 



Woodcut of Peter Treveris' Sign of the " Wodows " from the 



" Crete Herball " (1529) -7° 



Woodcut from the Title-page of the Fourth Edition of the 



" Crete Herball " (1561) 74 



Illustrations from Turner's " Herball " 88 



Portrait of John Cerard from the First Edition of the 



" Herball " (1597) 104 



/Illustrations of Sassafras and Tobacco from Nicholas Monardes' 



"JOYFULL NeWES OUT OF THE NeWE FoUNDE WORLDE " (1577) . I28 



Title-page of Parkinson's " Paradisus " (1629) .... 144 



Title-page of Parkinson's " Theatrum Botanicum " (1640) . . 152 



Portrait of John Parkinson from the " Paradisus " (162^ . . 160 



Nicholas Culpeper from '' The English Physician Enlarged " . . 166 



Frontispiece of " The Curious Destillatory/' by Thomas Shirley, 



M.D., Physician in Ordinary to His Majesty (1677) . . 174 



