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Botanical Illustration 



[ch. 



to fit the block (Text-fig. 92). The figures in earlier works, 

 such as the ' Ortus Sanitatis,' are recalled in Kandel's dis- 

 regard of the proportion between the size of the tree, and 

 that of the leaves and fruits. 



ROSACEVM 



Text-fig. 94. "Rosaceum" [Mattioli, Commentarii, 

 1560]. Reduced. 



In point of time, the illustrations to the early editions 

 of Mattioli's Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides 

 follow fairly closely on those of Fuchs, but they are 



