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Tuscan have added from his own knowledge those which he at- 
tributes to the “ Tuscii.” Of the rest, those ascribed to the “ Do- 
miani, Ciciliani, Lucani,’’ and some of the “ Greci,’’ were doubtless 
added by the Domian redactor ; and those ascribed to the Spani, 
Latini, Itali, Ytaliani, Gallii, and part of the Greci, may have been 
in the MS. from Matteo: onward. 
6. Secres de Salerne, the French MS. translation of the Circa 
instans, made by Le Petit Pelous in central Italy in 1458 (in 
Siena ?) chiefly from the now-existing Zractatus, MS. 993, on the 
blank end of which Pelous transcribed his Sinonimia, according to 
his own signature, the same year. The nomenclatural part of 
Secres was published 1886 by Camus at Modena in his “ L’Opera 
Salernitana,” with the claim that the Secres is “the primitive text 
of the Grant Herbier,” and proving by comparison the direct deri- 
vation of that French herbal from Circa instans. The contents of 
Secres, its succession of chapters, its index and its figures, are 
almost absolute copies from the Zractatus ; though more prolix. 
But certain slight differences show that Pelous also used other 
SS. of Circa instans, from which he made supplementary re- — 
marks. st. The French Secres besides reproducing all that is in 
the Latin 7ractatus, adds 8 new chapters, as Stafisagria, Saliunca, 
Fuligo, Lacca, Siseleos, Sistra, Lepidos calcis, Trifolium, mentioned 
in the index to the present MS. of Zractatus and doubtless pre- 
sented in Bartolomeo’s original. 
2d. Certain chapters after translating all the Latin which 
now remains in Zractatus, add efc., as if there were more un- 
translated, 
3d. In chapter Appium risus, a quotation from Plateario in the 
first person is given which is lacking in 7ractatus. 
4th. Pelous adds 7 or 8 new chapters not in the text or index 
of Tractatus ; of which Crisomiles, Culcasia, Robellia, are in the 
Breslau MS. of Plateario’s Compendium ; and Gran froissié, Sapo- 
naria, Senechon, Herbe d’ancens, from sources which Camus found 
difficult to trace. 
Besides using other MSS. of Girca instans, Pelous also supple- 
mented his author from his own observations and from certain 
more recent writers whom he quotes ; as under Soldanea (= Con- 
volvulus Soldanella L.) he cites “ un nouvel acteur appellé Gentil 
