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all three are called in Latin Herba Puralysis.” * The second 
and third had been called Herba Paralysis minor and major by Da 
Manlio. 
LXII. HeErmoraus BarBARUS 
First of Italian botanists to begin a new science of botany from 
direct study of the classics was Hermolaus Barbarus,f 1454- 
* Literally in the German of the Apodixis, p. 190, ‘ Bega Herba par- 
alisis, Hymmelschliissel or Heaven-key [Aster Amellus L, ?] in Latin is called Herba 
Paralisis, and in German tongue is Hymmelschliissel or deredals schliissel ; but by 
some [it is said that it is the same as] white Barheng [i. ¢., daisy, Bedlis perennis L.; 
the Herba paralysis minor or Margarita of Da Manli iol. And that its leaves [rays] are 
of a white color; but [this s] is false; as I have written before, under the letter B in the 
erste) Bethonig [ Befonica, including also, daisy and cowslip]. By some the Doc- 
tores herba, Artotica, Primula veris, is called [by the same name, 7, ¢., immel- 
schlissel), That however is false [7. ¢.,.a wrong application of this last name]. 
What Primula veris is, is the plant Zeitléssen, a I will speak of it under the 
> 
Under Zettlossen, Primula veris, p. 199, he says, ‘* Zeitlossen kraut is very com- 
mon, and familiarly known by the Latin [name] Primula veris and in German Lett- 
fossen kraut or Masslicblin. 
Under Betonien, p. 185, he had said, ‘ Betonien-kraut in Latin is Betonica.. 
And the Brun Betonien or Betonig is to be separated, that has the brown biosssides 
There is a kind with white [daisy] and another with yellow blossoms [cowslip]... That 
kind with yellow blossoms is also called by the Latin name Herba paralisis, a and in 
German tongue Hymmelschliissel; and that with the white meen? (ay) is so too. 
That is however not right ; since Hymmelschliissel is not of that 
* Ermolao Barbaro, born at Venice July, 1454, of an ancient a family ; son of 
Zaccaria and nephew of the Venetian ga Ermolao Barbaro of 1410-1471, who was 
— f son of another Zaccaria, Bred to diplomacy, the botanist Ermolao was ambas- 
or (styled *‘* orator ’’) of Venice, as were his father and grandfather before him. He 
a at Verona, and Rome; and Padua, a baccalaureate smiled 477- 
rmolaus’ first work, begun when he was 18 and finished when 26, was a Latin 
Conininn of Themistius the commentator on Aristotle. His next was a translation of 
Dioscorides ; an elegant edition of which in folio was printed by Egnatius at Venice in 
» 
it has been claimed, at Rome in 1492, but known best the editions of Venice, 
1516, and of Cologne, 1530. A third author memes was Pliny, in whom ¢ 
ica etoedl he had corrected 5,090 errors, m made lain in his ‘ Castigationes fae 
1492. : 
At the end of that year are father died, and he journeyed on a mission to ar 
where in a letter he wrote,—almost his last words, ‘* Twelve years have | given myself 
to statecraft, not from my own impulse, but my father, my friends and m y brother im- 
pelling me; but knowledge has been all this time, lost. Toseek a was I gst: 
to that I have given myself; without that I cannot live. O marvel of fortune, that 
