408 Aster Hisrory: CLusius 
years previous to publication, added to the delay. About 300 new 
or remarkable plants were observed by him during that Spanish 
journey of 1564-5, over two-thirds as many as the entire flora 
recorded by Theophrastus or bequeathed to the Renaissance by the 
fifteenth century herbals; and 299 figures of new or rare plants 
were counted by Treviranus in this volume on Spain.* 
Again returning to Belgium and remaining chiefly at Antwerp, 
Clusius was doubtless busily engaged for some time in working 
up the details of his Spanish journey; in 1571 he was in Paris 
again, and went to London; in 1572 he was in Belgium once 
more, probably making then his translation of Garcia ab Horta from 
the Portuguese,} and in 1573 he went to Vienna under invitation 
of Maximilan II to take charge of the Imperial Botanical Gar- 
den, which he enriched with many rare plants; was for a time in 
Prague, was raised to the nobility by his emperor, and was re- 
tained for some time in the same place by his successor Rudolf I], 
being in all for 14 years in charge of the Vienna Garden, 1573- 
1587. 
His friends at Vienna included the esteemed royal historiog- 
rapher Sambricius, the royal physicians Crato and Julius Alexan- 
drinus, and also Dodoens, his Flemish master, with whom he had 
elaborated the ‘‘ Histoire des Plantes” in 1557, and who now 
came to Vienna as court physician for 1576-79. 
While at Vienna Clusius continued with unwearied zeal his 
search for new plants, travelling over all Austria and Hungary, 
and going twice to England, a fruit of his last journey being 
his acquaintance with Sir Francis Drake, the ‘Franc. Drake 
Esq. Anglus” of Clusius’ references, through whose means he 
afterwards secured many rare exotics. A result of the journey 
through Austria~-Hungary was his volume on the Rare Plants of 
Oo i ae 
* Of this rare volume, which Meyer endeavered in vain to secure, Pritzel notes 
the sale of a copy at 8 francs in 1845 by A. Meilhac. Its full title was ‘‘Rariorum 
aliquot stirpium per Hispanias observatarum historia, libris duobus expressa, ad 
Maximilian I1, Imperatorem,’’ 1576, octavo, 529 pp. 
1 ‘‘ Aromatum Simplicium atque Medicamentorum apud Indos nascentium His- 
toria, Lusitanica lingua scripta per Garciam ab Horta, Latine in epitomen contracta 4 Car- 
Clusio, cum iconibus,’’ Antwerp, 1574, Oct.; 30 figures; reissued 1579, 1593+ 1605 ; 
with separate issue of Clusius’ Notes 1582, together with descriptions of exotics sent him 
by Sir Francis Drake, 
