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1565, there are large illustrations which are reproduced on 

 a reduced scale in Text-figs. 43, 44, 95. These wood-cuts 

 resemble the smaller ones in character, but are more 

 decorative in effect, and often remarkably fine. Whereas 



Aconirum luteum minus. 



Text-fig. 97. "Aconitum luteum minus " = Eranthis hiemalis L., 

 Winter Aconite [Dodoens, Pemptades, 1583]. 



in the work of Brunfels and Fuchs, the beautiful line of 

 a single stalk is often the key-note of the whole drawing, 



