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former, which will be discussed at greater length in the 

 next chapter, are shown in Text-figs. 109 and no, and 

 the Glasswort, one of the best wood-cuts among the latter, 

 is reproduced in Text-fig. 47. 



Passing on to the seventeenth century, we find that 

 the ' Prodromos ' of Gaspard Bauhin (1620) contains a 

 number of original illustrations, but they are not very 

 remarkable, and often have rather the appearance of having 

 been drawn from pressed specimens. Two examples of 

 these wood-cuts will be found in Text-figs. 49 and 62. The 

 former is interesting as being an early representation of the 

 Potato. 



Text-fig. 103. "Lentisco del 'Per\x" = Pislacia lentiscus L., 

 Mastic Tree [Durante, Herbario Nuovo, 1585]. 



Parkinson's ' Paradisus Terrestris ' of 1629 contains a 

 considerable proportion of original figures, besides others 

 borrowed from previous writers. The engravings were 

 made in England by Switzer. They are poor in quality, 

 and the innovation of representing a number of species 

 in one large wood-cut is not very successful. Text-fig. 55 

 shows a twig of Barberry, which is but a single item in one 

 of these large illustrations. 



