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The Herbal in England 



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result is that many of the same figures occur both in Turner 

 and in Lyte. There are said to be 870 figures in Lyte's 

 herbal, of which about thirty are new. Of the latter 

 Centaurea rhaponticum is an example (Text-fig. 53). 



Text-fig. 53. " Reubarbe " = CVw/flz^r^iZ rhaponticmn L. 

 [Lyte, A Niewe Herball, 1578]- 



Lyte occasionally adds a criticism of his own in a 

 different type from that used in the main body of the text. 

 At the beginning of the book, there is a long set of doggerel 

 verses "in commendation of this worke," which imply that 



