ANGUILLARA’S EXTRACTS FROM CRATEVAS 871 
reading of the ancients, from Aristotle to the Geoponica, and of 
the Arabs and the modern Latins. Not even a word of an 
obscure poet escapes him, if it but throw light on any plant. He 
was not contented with the printed text but went direct to the 
MSS. for doubtful cases, of which he was a sagacious critic. He 
was equally great as philologist and as plant-identifier. He was 
obliged often to antagonize his predecessors in his identification of 
the plants of the ancients ; but from the courteous and unassum- 
ing way in which he did this, we know him to have been of 
unprejudiced mind. Haller rightly calls him facile princeps among 
Italian botanists, and maximus auctor.” 
Anguillara as a Source for Cratevas.—In his Semplici Anguil- 
lara publishes “a great many extracts from Cratevas * which are 
not otherwise known,” remarks Meyer, 1:252. The extracts 
made number 37: but their most recent investigator, Wellmann, 
thinks they add little to what had been already familiar as incor- 
porated in the text of Dioscorides.+ 
Anguillara says little of the MS. of a fragment of Cratevas 
which was his source ; simply under Asarum, that “there had 
come into his hands a fragment of Greek MS. of an ancient writer, 
Cut of which he took what Cratevas had written regarding 
Asarum ”; and in the following extract, “ What one can see, out 
Of some fragments of Cratevas, that I have set down.” {This is all 
he says about the MS. 
ag transcriptions from it containing the bare names of plants weit duced his friend 
— by his friend Weigel. Meyer, some thirty or forty years later, In ak peal 
*slani of Padua to go to Venice to make inquiries about this codex, W! sista te 
esult, Visiani being told there that the only MS. of Cratevas known to 
ON s-sheet fragment in the Imperial library at Vienna. 
éThe relations of Pallenis with Aster may be briefly su 
th 2-5: Perhaps it was about this time that Anguillara, 
Pallenis in Italy, now saw it in the Morea and at Zante a a 
‘ ™ 1796 heard it called xapdéyoprov in Zante; 4 popular n 
mmarized as follows? 
doubtless already familiar 
nd other parts of Greece. 
e used for it in 
