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which were probably acquired by the printer of Lyte's 

 Dodoens in England. This circumstance put great diffi- 

 culties in the way of Dodoens' wish to reproduce his herbal 



Capparis. 



Text-fig. yj. "Capparis" = G*//rtr?'.y ovata L. [Dodoens, 

 Pemptades, 1583]. 



in Latin. However it proved a blessing in disguise, for 

 he had the good fortune to meet, in Christophe Plantin, " un 



