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[The initial letters, which will be found at the beginning of each chapter, 

 are taken from Pierre Belon's 'Les Observations de plusieurs singularitez et 

 choses memorables, trouvees en Grece, Asie, Jude"e, Egypte, Arabie, et autres 

 pays estranges,. ..Imprime' a Paris par Benoist Prevost.' 1553] 



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"Plantago" = Plantain [Herbarium Apuleii Platonici, ?I484] . 

 "Artemisia" [Herbarium Apuleii Platonici, ? 1484] . 

 "Lilium" [Herbarius Moguntinus, 1484] .... 



"Aristolochia longa" [Herbarius Moguntinus, 1484] 

 "Serpentaria" [Herbarius Moguntinus, 1484] .... 

 "Brionia" [Arnaldus de Villa Nova, Tractatus de virtutibus her 



barum, 1499] 



"Acorus" = Iris [Herbarius zu Teutsch, Mainz, 1485] 



"Leopardus" [Ortus Sanitatis, Mainz, 1491] .... 



"Daucus" = Carrot [Ortus Sanitatis, Mainz, 1491] . 



" Passer " = Sparrow [Ortus Sanitatis, Mainz, 1491] . 



"Pavo" = Peacock [Ortus Sanitatis, Mainz, 149 1] . 



"Arbor vel lignum viteparadisi" [Ortus Sanitatis, Mainz, 1491] 



"Narcissus" [Ortus Sanitatis, Mainz, 1491] .... 



"Bauser vel Bausor" [Ortus Sanitatis, Mainz, 1491] 



"Panis" = Bread [Ortus Sanitatis, Mainz, 1491] 



"Ambra" = Amber [Ortus Sanitatis, Mainz, 1491] . 



"Unicornus" [Ortus Sanitatis, Mainz, 1491] .... 



A Herbalist's Garden [Le Jardin de Sant£, ? 1539] . 



Wood-cut of Plants [Bartholomaeus Anglicus, Liber de proprie 



tatibus rerum, Wynkyn de Worde, ? 1495]. Reduced 

 "Yvery" = Ivory [The Crete Herball, 1529] .... 

 "Nenufar" = Waterlily [The Grete Herball, 1529] . 

 "Walwurtz vc&xwXvn." = Symphytum, Comfrey [Brunfels, Herbarum 



vivas eicones, Vol. 1. 1530]. Reduced .... 

 "Helleborus Niger " = Helleborus vhidis L., Green Hellebore 



[Brunfels, Herbarum vivae eicones, Vol. 1. 1530]. Reduced 



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1 The dates refer, in each case, to the particular edition from which the figures have 

 been copied, which is not always the first. For fuller titles and dates of first editions, 

 see Appendix I. 



