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The Herbal in France 



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was really responsible for it, though assisted at different 

 times by Jean Bauhin and Desmoulins. 



The ' Historia plantarum ' had numerous faults, but it 

 was, at the time, the most complete universal flora that 



Text-fig. 51. " Ornithogalum magnum" [d'Alechamps, 

 Historia generalis plantarum, 1586]. 



existed. It contained about 2700 figures (two of which are 

 reproduced in Text-figs. 51 and 101), but, both in drawing 

 and wood-cutting, they show marked inferiority to much of 

 the earlier work. 



