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extremely different in style (Text-figs. 41, 42, 93, 94). 

 Details such as the veins and hairs of the leaves are often 

 elaborately worked out, while shading is much used, a 

 considerable mastery of parallel lines being shown. The 



Text-fig. 95. "Suber Primus'' [Mattioli, Commentarii, 1565]. 

 Reduced. 



general effect is occasionally somewhat flat and dull. Some 

 of the drawings suggest that they may have been 

 done from dried plants, and in others the treatment is 



