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These illustrations, some of which are reproduced in Plates 

 IV, V and XVI, and Text-figs, i and 2, will be discussed 

 in greater detail in Chapter VII. One of their peculiarities 

 is that, if a herb has the power of healing the bite or sting 



HERBA ARTEMISIA LFPTA/ 

 FILOSJ«MATRlCALE. 



Text-fig. 2. "Artemisia" [Herbarium Apuleii Platonici, ? 1484]. 



of any animal, that animal is drawn with the plant on the 

 same block. 



Soon after the appearance in Italy of the earliest printed 

 editions of the Herbarium of Apuleius Platonicus, three 

 works of great importance were published at Mainz in 

 Germany. These were the Latin 'Herbarius' (1484), the 

 German 'Herbarius' (1485), and derived from the latter, the 



