Vill PREFACE. 
by John Parkinson, Apothecary of London, and the King’s 
Herbarist. London, 1640.” 
Albertus Magnus. “ Alberti cognomento Magni... De 
Virtutibus Herbarum, Lapidum et Animalium quorundam, 
libellus. Item, De Mirabilibus Mundi, ac de quibusdam 
effectibus causatis a quibusdam animalibus,” etc. Lugduni, 
0553: 
Lupton, “A thousand Notable things of sundry sortes : 
Whereof some are wonderfull, some strange, some pleasant, 
divers necessary, a great sort profitable, and many very 
precious.” London, 1627. The first edition of this book 
was published in 1595, the second in 1601. 
Hart. “KAINIKH, or the Diet of the Diseased .. . by 
James Hart, Doctor in Physicke.” London, 1633. 
Evelyn. “Silva, or a Discourse of Forest-trees, .. . 
Also Acetaria; or a Discourse of Sallets, with Kalendarium 
Hortense; or The Gard’ner’s Almanack ... by John 
Evelyn, Esq.,” etc. Fourth edition. London, 1706. 
The edition of Ben Jonson here quoted is the folio of 
1692; that of Beaumont and Fletcher the folio of 1679. 
The other plays cited are from modern reprints. 
I have to thank Mr. Mihill Slaughter for the care with 
which he has photographed the woodcuts in the Hortus 
Sanitatts. 
HERBERT W. SEAGER. 
Hampton Court, 
December, 1896. 
