LETTER L. 



YiaTUES op PLANTS, 



There exists a work in, sufficiently bad Latin, written in 

 old times by a doctor named Johannes de Mediolano, of the 

 Academy of Salerno, and attributed to the entire school of 

 Salerno — 



" Anglorum regi acribit iota schola Salerni." 



This book, which contains all sorts of medical precepts and 

 rules for preserving health, and of which some are exceed- 

 ingly whimsical, frequently recurs to my memory, in the 

 course of the journey I am making round my garden, on 

 account of the singular virtues attributed to certain plants by 

 the said school of Salerno. 



