90 LA BOTANIQUE EN PROVENCE. 
The plural is used aaa except in four gee ga when 
the first person singular when speaking of Spain and 
Portugal. has nt er “ms claimed for ee that he ever 
visited the Iberian peninsula ; it is tolerably on therefore, that 
in these cases Pena is the author. Again, the mate knowledge 
of southern plants, places, ad native names aE aaa have been 
acquired by Lobel, a Fleming, in a period of less than eighteen 
months, whilst Pena, born in country, would naturally be familiar 
with them; an additional corroboration is the use of ‘‘ nostras”’ as 
applied to Provencal eae scaring Lobel, from Lisle, in Flanders, 
would not have been likel 
Lobel was thirty-two Eni ‘old when the Adversaria came out, 
et the phrase ‘“‘multis abhinc annis’’ occurs more than once; a 
t the authority of authors ‘who were contemporaries is cited : 
Ganidel, a Gohory, all speak of Pena’s Adversaria. Caspar 
auhin, who on excellent terms with Lobel, and had also 
riage ‘at Montpellier, ; joins in the same stor 
ast argument which may be brought ix in is from the style of 
ae Pena was bred to arms till he was twenty, and then, 
angie his profession, he would have but little time to acquire 
the graces of a correct style: hence the harshness of the text; 
Lobel’s own language is less open to reproach. 
y, then, were the two names associated in the title-page ? 
Lobel was of a vain nature, and would not have acquiesced in his 
own name standing second, out of alphabetic order, unless his part 
was really subordinate. The conclusion probably is that the idea 
of the work and most of the text is Pena’s; that he had more slender 
means may Lobel, so the joint issue was the result. This will be 
notice 
aa: ined in England till 1572 at lets - a passage cited 
by the ithe shows; Lobel remained with till his death in 
1616 at Highgate Pena’s after career was a er e; 
He ae we “have a key to the mystery why Pena disappears 
botanically after the production of the Adversaria. The bulk of the 
book remained with ¢ the printer till Lobel produced his supple- 
mentary work, his Stirpium Observationes, in 1576, with the 
Adversaria ppen nded, the introductory matter te modified. 
M. Max Rooses, curator of the Musée Plantin, states that that 
celebrated printer Plantin bought 800 copies, paying 1200 florins 
for them. This did not exhaust the stock, for Purfoot’s reissue of 
the Adversaria, with other additions by Lobel, came out in 1605; 
it was not a reprint, as may be seen by certain accidents in the 
type. 
These later issues have not been attentively examined by the 
author under review, or he would hardly have charged Lobel with 
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