BARTHOLOMAEUS’ PERSONALITY 291 
Bartholomaeus’ great indebtedness to Salerno* by no means 
diminished when, from his treatment of diseases, so largely taken 
from Constantinus, he passed on to take up individual plants, 
which are very largely described from some MS. of Platearius’ 
Circa instans.+ For example, his whole long chapter on his “ Aloa”’ 
of Indica, lign-aloes,t is, as he himself says § at its end, transferred 
from Plateario ; that on his “Aloe” of India, chiefly Aloe vulgaris 
L., is, he says, at the outset, wholly extracted || from Dioscorides, 
Plateario and Avicenna. 
Traces of Bartholomaeus’ own delight in special flowers creep out 
occasionally, though his purpose was simply to write of the plants 
of Scriptural mention and of such others in England as were of 
special importance. His own feeling for nature occasionally gets 
the better of these restrictions as we see in his Violet. So in his 
chapter De flagello, fol. 146, speaking of twigs and sprouts, he can- 
not forbear to turn aside for a slender-stemmed red field-flower, 
perhaps scarlet poppy, remarking “Est itaque Flosculus stipite 
quidem gracilis et modicus, flore rubicundo.” Again in the same 
chapter he remarks, “ Among other flowers place first the blos- 
Te I a edt nate TS 
* «* Haec omnia de Dyas. et Plat. et Avicenna extracta sunt.”” 
+ With such differences as that where under Aloa, Plateario quoted from Constan- 
tinus without specifying the book, Bartholomaeus looked up the reference: and quotes 
the book, ‘‘ Constantinus dicit in de graduum,”’ and under Aloe, the three kinds —s 
lateario calls, fide the Modena MS., * Cicotrinum, Epatis, et Caballinum,’’ appear 
in Bartholomaeus, fide the 61-line edition, as ‘ Concitrinum, Epaticum, et Caballinum, 
ut dicit Platearius.”’ 
t£xcoecaria Avalocha L. 
% “* Huc usque Platea.”’ 
\| * Haec omnia de Dyas. et Plat. et Avicenna extracta sunt.”’ : 
Of Macer’s peculiar plants, Bartholomaeus retains these traces: ais of 
Macer, ‘‘ Zizannia herba (or) lolium.”’ Boracho; neither this nor Melissophyllum 
occurs. Brassica or Caulis of Macer appears as his “ What is called Br d 
or Caulis per se nascens, has stronger effects than the ordinary Olus (cabbage)—‘* for 
Caules are vulgarly called by the name of Olus’’ ; as says Ysido...Pliny says it avails 
g 
ab olendo dictus, Ysi{dor]. On apples and cabbages the antediluvians were no 
as the animals are on grasses and herbs; as says Ysido, All he 
(omnis graminosa in terra nascentis) which can be cooked 
are fit for food for men, are in general called by the name Olus; but Caule ce 
in particular; as says Ysido. Olus is an herb “ melancholicum, generans, horribilem 
edorem faciens,’’ ut dicit Ysa[ac] in diet[is]...Est autem herba qua profecit per trans- 
plantacionem.”’ 
