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192 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 



It is to be regretted that the principal features have been 

 somewhat obscured by the growth of trees, but the ground 

 plan fortunately remains unaltered. Pisa in 1544, Bologna in 

 1547, and others,^ quickly followed the lead given by Padua. 

 We are fortunate in possessing an elaborate plan of the Pisan 

 garden published in Tilli's catalogue^ of 1723 with a list of 

 the plants cultivated in the various beds and enclosures, the 

 latter being here reproduced. 



EXPLICATIO 

 PROSPECTUS 

 HORTI PISANI 



1. Topiarium magnum instar Tentorii, Cupressinis Arboribus 

 flexilibus, & ferreis catenis circumdatum. 



2. Umbraculum primum venustum, opere topiario, Citris Ar- 

 boribus, ac Citroidibus poma suaveolentia ferentibus instruc- 

 tum, & fontibus ornatum. 



3. Umbraculum alteram Citroidibus Florentinis repletum. 



4. Vaporarium pro Plantis Americanis. 



5. Vaporarium gestatorium. 



6. Locus pro Plantis Aegyptiis aquam respuentibus. 



7. Vaporarium cum laminis vitreis fixum ad semina vegetanda. 



8. Paries per totam longitudinem Aurantiorum Olyssipponen- 

 sium, aliarumque: Arborum poma sustinens. 



9. Fenestrae Hypocausti. 



10. Fenestrae Hybernaculi. 



11. Platea cum variis Aloes Plantis. 



12. Nemus exoticarum, & indigenarum Arborum. 



13. Hydrophylacia, seu Castella. 



14. Locus pro Plantis montanis, & Sylvestribus. 



15. Laboratorii Chimici, in quo Anthlia Pneumatica reperitur, 

 pars externa Hortum respiciens. Supra vero extat infundi- 

 bulum ad pluviam recipiendam, de qua fuse D. G. Derham 

 in suis transactionibus, ac etiam in Demonstr. cap. iii. pag. 

 23. mentionem facit; eadem pars externa variis fontibus, ac 

 lapidibus figuratis est ornata ; ibi scilicet reperiuntur As- 

 troites, qui in Metallotheca Mercati pag. 235. & Corallites, 

 Placentae, Lapis Lumbricatus cap. 55. quorum etiam aliqui 

 sunt Lapides Cerebriformes, an hue allati sint ex Sicilia, vel 

 Sardinia, aut ex Jamaica, ut Rayus Hist. Tom. iii. pag. 5. 

 ex Sloanis verbis, adhuc nescimus. 



' Botanic gardens were founded in Zurich, 1560; Bologna, 1508; Leyden, 1577; 

 Leipzig, 157!); Montpellier, 1598; Paris, 1597, known as Jardin des Plantes after 

 16.35; Heidelberg, before 1600; Giessen, 1005; Strasburg, 1620; Oxford, 1621; 

 Jena, 1629; Upsala, 1657; Chelsea, 1673; Berlin, 1679; Edinburgh, 1680; Amster- 

 dam, 1682. See also foot-note, p. 209. 



• Tilli, M. A. Catalogus plantarum Horti Pisani. Florence, 1723. 



