136 THE LITERATURE OF BOTANY. 



Here I would introduce, briefly, a few works by eminent 

 botanists that might have been named in their proper 

 chronological order, but as they do not hold a striking 

 place in the history of the advancement of botanical know- 

 ledge I will call attention to them together as they are 

 noticeable and quaint, and shall content myself with their 

 names, and point out the examples which you are invited 

 to look at afterwards. 



" A New Herbal, or Historic of Plants," by Dodoens, a 

 Dutchman, " wherein is contained the whole discourse and 

 perfect description of all sorts of herbs and plants, their 

 divers and sundrie kinds, their strange figures, fashions 

 and shapes, operations and virtues, and that not only of 

 those which are growing in this country of England, but 

 all others else of foreign realms, commonly used in physicke. 

 First set forth in Dutch, and now translated out of French 

 into English, by Henry Lyte, at London, 1578." The 

 system seems to be simply to divide the book into parts 

 Medicinal, sweet-smelling, and pleasant plants. Noisome 

 weeds. Corn in grain. Herbs used in meat. Trees and 

 shrubs. 



" Sylva Sylvarum," by Lord Bacon, or, " A Natural History 

 in ten centuries," 1627, folio, first edition. 



"The Natural Historic of the World," by Pliny, and 

 translated by Dr. Philemon Holland, 1634. A very curious 

 work and now very rare. 



"Flora," by John Rea, 1665. More especially a horti- 

 culturists' book, but notable. 



" The Complete Gardener," by M. de la Quentin, trans- 



