SURVIVALS FROM: PLATEARIO 275 
16. Gart der Gesundheit, German translation of the preceding, 
with modifications, by Dr. Johann von Cuba; 1485, Mentz, and 
often after, to 1530, etc. 
17. Garde der Suntheyt, Lubeck translation of 15, but with 
changes in text and in figures ; 1520, ‘‘ Lubeck in saligen Steffen 
Arndes’ druckerye,”’ folio. 
18. Kreutterbuch, modified from 16, by Eucharius Rhodion ; 
Egenolff, Frankfort, 1533, 1540, 1550. 
19. Kreuterbuch, in German, by Adam Lonitzer (greatly 
modified from 18); Egenolf, Frankfort, 1557, and often after. 
20. Kreuterbuch, by Peter Uffenbach (modified slightly from 
19), Frankfort, 1616, and often after. 
21. Kreuterbuch, by Balthazar Ehrhart (modified impercep- 
tibly from 20), Ulm, 1737, 1765, 1776, Augsburg, 1783. 
GERMAN AND MISCELLANEOUS PLANT-WRITERS. 
XLV. HILDEGARDIS 
The description by St. Hildegardis,* about 1150 A. D., of 166 
native plants of the Rhine provinces, has been called by Meyer 
“the beginning of German Natural History,” and is also note- 
worthy as one of the earliest contributions made by her sex to 
botanical knowledge. 
She was author of four books “ Der physica,” of which books 
II and III are on plants ; printed at Strasburg by Joannes Schott, 
1544, but rare. They contain numerous folk-remedies not from 
Dioscorides but from the people, and many first-mentions + of 
important German plant-names. Among the names she uses for 
Plants confused with Aster are the following: 
4 * Born in 1099, at Bechelheim on the Nahe, of a knightly family, she lived a cloister 
o from her 8th to her Soth year, dying in 1179, having been 31 years an abbess near 
Bingen, at St. Ruprechtsberg, and for 12 years before, the abbess of the convent at 
Disibodenberg. 
T Sprengel, recounting her ‘‘ barbarous names,’’ finds in the Physica of Hilde- 
Sardis (his sanctissima virgo), the following names used for the first time : Herba \aron 
8 Arum maculatum ; Zytvel, Artemisia Santonica ; Christiana, He/leborus miger ; 
Storchenschnabel, Geum Robertianum ; Razela, Polygonum Perstcaria ; Huofladtheda 
major, Tussilago Petasites; Huofladtheda minor, Tussilago Farfara ; also Wehdystel, 
Pandonia, Hunesdarm, Himmelschlussel, mentioned above. 
