INTRODUCTION TO BOTANY. 17 
the hands of Gerarde, they were transposed from Dodo- 
nzus’s arrangement of his subject into that of Lobell, and 
published by Gerarde without any acknowledgement of 
Dr. Priest’s labour in the translation; indeed he speaks 
in his Preface of Dr. Priest’s translation as having perished, 
although both Lobell and Johnson affirm that he used it 
himself with no other alteration than the above-mentioned 
change of order in disposing the chapters, and some addi- 
tions. For the embellishment of the work, the publisher 
procured from the Continent the wood-blocks that had 
been used in the printing of Dodonzus, Lobell, and Clusius. 
Lobell was extremely angry at Gerarde having adopted 
his method, at which we may be surprised, since it un- 
doubtedly may be considered at this time of day as an 
acknowledgement of his superiority over the order, if order 
it can be called, of Dodonezus; perhaps the real cause 
of Lobell’s anger was, that Gerarde’s work being in 
English, had a preferable sale to that of his own works in 
Latin, and might thus injure his purse, however the com- 
plaisance of Gerarde might flatter his self-love. 
The reign of James the First seems not to have been 
favourable to botanical studies, as no works of any con- 
sequence were published in his reign in England; but Basil 
Besler, an apothecary at Norimberg, published the Hor- 
- tus Eystettensis, or account of the plants im the bishop’s 
garden there, with 1083 figures on copper, digested ac- 
cording to the order of their flowering; a superb work for 
the time. And in 1623 Caspar Bauhin, professor of ana- 
tomy and medicine at Basil, published his invaluable Pinax, 
the labour of forty years, in which he collected the various 
names which all’ the preceding authors had given to the 
then known plants; so that this work has ever since formed 
a repertory, by which, on knowing the name, that any 
one old author has given to a plant, we are enabled, with- 
out any trouble, to discover it in the works of other writers ; 
and this book is of course indispensable in a botanical li- 
brary of any extent. 
Two authors distinguish the unfortunate reign of the 
first Charles, namely, Johnson and Parkinson. Johnson 
was a physician, but, during the civil wars, he became a 
lieutenant-colonel on the king’s side, and died of the 
wounds he received in a saliy from Basing-house. His 
first botanical publication was the “ Iter Cantianum, or a 
Journey into Kent in Search of Plants.” Then followed 
his list of the plants growing upon Hampstead Heath, 
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