LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



FRONTISPIECE 



Leonhard Fuchs (1501— 1566) [Engraving by Speckle in De historia 

 stirpiiiin, 1542] 



PLATES 



PLATE Face page 



I. "Sonchos" [Dioscorides. Codex Anicije Julianas, circa a.d. 



500]. Reduced 4 



II. "Stratiotes" [Dioscorides. Codex Anicia; Julians, circa 



A.D. 500]. Reduced 8 



III. Wood-cut of Plants [Konrad von Megenberg. Das puch 



der natur. 1475]. Reduced ...... 10 



IV. "Orbicularis" [Herbarium Apuleii Platonic!. ? 1484]. (T/ie 



tint represents colouring., which was probably contemporary) 1 2 



V. "Mandragora"= Mandrake [Herbarium Apuleii Platonici. 



? 1484]. ( The tint represents colouring, which was probably 

 contemporary) ......... 34 



VI. Joachim Camerarius, the younger (1534 — 1598) [Engraving 



by Bartholomasus Kilian. Probably between 1650 and 

 1700. Department of Prints and Drawings, British 

 Museum] 68 



VII. Charles de I'Ecluse (1526 — 1609) [Print in the Botany School, 



Cambridge] 74 



VIII. Mathias de I'Obel (1538— 1616) [Engraving by Frangois 



Dellarame. 1615. Department of Prints and Drawings, 

 British Museum]. ........ 78 



IX. Fabio Colonna (1567 — 1650) [Ekphrasis. 1606] ... 88 



X. Konrad Gesner (1516 — 1565) [Print in the Botany School, 



Cambridge] .......... 92 



XI. Gaspard Bauhin (1560— 1624) [Theatrum Anatoniicum. 



1605] 94 



XII. John Gerard (1545— 1607) [The Herball. 1636] ... 108 



XIII. John Parkinson (1567 — 1650) [Theatrum botanicum. 1640] . 114 



