324 Aster History; DA MANLIOo 
only as printed by Brunfels in his De vera, 1531, forming its pages 
167-182, and bearing the title “ Joannis Jacobi de Manlits Alexan- 
drini, difficiliorum Herbarum explanatio,” etc., and the running 
title “Explanationes Herb. Jacobi de Manliis.”’ It consists of notes 
on about 140 plants, beginning De Assavo, and ending De Hypert- 
con, arranged in no definite order, but full of curious mediaeval 
names and of quotations from Simon Januensis, Pandectarius and 
Platearius. Da Manlio is particularly concerned with the deter- 
mination of synonyms, and takes Circa instans as a chief author- 
ity, though he adds much matter of his own. 
Da Manlio was omitted by Meyer, Winckler, Pritzel, and Bu- 
maldus ; was an Italian, and lived at Pavia ; was not much younger, 
thinks Sprengel, than Antonius Guainerius, another botanical writer 
of Pavia of date 1440, whom Da Manlio, 167, calls a “‘ modern.” 
Linnaeus, 1747, calls Da Manlio by the name ‘“‘ De Bosco Alexan- 
drinus”’; Seguier, 276, names him “ Jacobus Manlius de Bosco, 
Alexandrinus”’; Sprengel, following Brunfels, names him as 
‘‘ Joannes Jacobus de Manliis, Alexandrinus (Italiae).”’ Sprengel 
mentions him as first to describe a Scabiosa, to call the daisy Mar- 
garita, to make observations on Angelica, Archangelica, Gratiola 
officinalis, etc. 
De Manlio quotes also, besides Antonius Guainerius and those 
before mentioned, Christophorus de Honestis, Manfredus (see infra, 
p. 380), Serapion, one ‘‘ Compositor”’ (author of the Butanicus ? cf. 
p. 228) and earlier writers as Mesue and Avicenna. 
Da Manlio's “ Compositor” is quoted by him under Herba S. 
Mariae, Herba Crassula and Centumnervia ; under Spargula, as S4Y~ 
ing that it is Rudea tinctorum minor ; under Herba Paralysis as S8Y" 
ing it is the Herba Sancti Petri (2. ¢., Primula veris : Circa-instans had 
already said that “ Herba Paralysis or Herba Sancti Petri ts Primula 
veris’’; while also applying Herba Paralysis to another plant, sae 
haps tansy). Under Cichorea, “‘Compositor”’ is cited as saying 
that “it is Rostrum porcinum, et est herba cuius flos est coelestis. 
As to the name Rostrum porcinum see supra, P- 108. circa 
instans does not mention it for its Cichorea, though it uses the 
phrase “ of the coclestis color.” Under Endivia, Da Manlio quotes 
Avicenna as saying it is “ Zaraxacon . . . quam Gentilis 
cere, : “ ‘ ‘ Pe os 
Cicerbitam sive Rostrum porcinum”’; quotes ‘ Nicholus 10 propne 
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