LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



FRONTISPIECE 



Leonhard Fuchs (1501 — 1566) [Engraving by Speckle in De historia 



stirpium, 1542] 



PLATES 



PLATE Face page 



I. "Sonchos" [Dioscorides. Codex Aniciae Julianas, circa A.D. 



500]. Reduced 4 



II. "Stratiotes" [Dioscorides. Codex Aniciae Julianae. circa 



A.D. 500]. Reduced 8 



III. Wood-cut of Plants [Konrad von Megenberg. Das puch 



der natur. 1475]. Reduced 10 



IV. "Orbicularis" [Herbarium Apuleii Platonici. ? 1484]. {The 



tint represents colouring, which was probably contemporary) 1 2 



V. "Mandragora" = Mandrake [Herbarium Apuleii Platonici. 



? 1484]. ( The tint represents colouring, which was probably 

 contemporary) 34 



VI. Joachim Camerarius, the younger (1534 — 1598) [Engraving 



by Bartholomaeus Kilian. Probably between 1650 and 

 1700. Department of Prints and Drawings, British 

 Museum] 68 



VII. Charles de PEcluse (1526 — 1609) [Print in the Botany School, 



Cambridge] 74 



VIII. Mathias de l'Obel (1538 — 1616) [Engraving by Francois 



Dellarame. 161 5. Department of Prints and Drawings, 

 British Museum] 78 



IX. Fabio Colonna (1567 — 1650) [Ekphrasis. 1606] ... 88 



X. Konrad Gesner (15 16 — 1565) [Print in the Botany School, 



Cambridge] 92 



XI. Gaspard Bauhin (1560 — 1624) [Theatrum Anatomicum. 



1605] 94 



XII. John Gerard (1545— 1607) [The Herball. 1636] ... 108 



XIII. John Parkinson (1567 — 1650) [Theatrum botanicum. 1640] . 114 



