IV] 



The Herbal in the Netherlands 



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manuscript is preserved in the Leyden Library 1 containing 

 more than eighty beautiful water-colour drawings of fungi, 



Text-fig. 39. "Lacryma lob " = Coix lachryma-Jobi L., Job's Tears 

 [de l'Ecluse, Rariorum...per Hispanias, 1576]. 



executed under the direction of de l'Ecluse, by artists 

 employed by his great friend and patron, Baron Boldizsar 



1 University Library, Leyden, Department of Manuscripts, Codex No. 303. 



