Liber Primus . 
herbariiE, adeoque rci florccT fcriptores> quorum-, 
nemo vnus rfe vniuerfa abfolucaque , vc nunc vi- 
gec , florum culcione prxcepic . Fuere quidem per- 
pauci ex ijs, quos legerim flegiaucem complures) 
qui remoca qu^edam aut muciJa prascepca hac fu- 
per re cum accigerinc , incegram mihi ac peram- 
plam- tradendi culcus horcenfis maceriam rehque- 
runc. Ego igicur nouis inprascepcis prrfcribendis 
vciHus occupacus longifTimos indices ab ahjs de- 
fcribere fuperuacaneum puco . Neque camen eos 
ingraco filentio diffimulabo , qui nuper ingeniofa^. 
floridaque fcripcione ipfis decus floribus addide- 
runc . Sic enim, vc par eft , in lacinis hifce meis hor- 
tis non vna modo breuiffimorum flofculorum for- 
ma , fed florenciffimorum quoque ingenioruiru 
fama vernabic . Prior in horcenfibus meis nouali- 
bus floridiffimum nomen efFerac , qui fuas pridem-^ 
paginas florum fcripcione glori^e foecundiffima-j 
confeuic , Fabius nobihcacis excelficace Columna^, > Pr^ter has 
erudicionis amoenicace llos^ ieupocius lamin^e lux lumna, 
miraculum-, quia Columnam florere £acic> feue- 
riorera videlicec philofophiiE > machemacicie> le- 
gumque difciplinam blandiffimo florum ftudio 
coronac . Flore^e fipienci^e pr^cones arguciffimi 
func pridem euulgaci > breuique vulgandi codices , 
in quibus , quam in horcis , pulchrius flores nicent, 
ac liiauius olenc: quia illos oculaciffima , &plane 
Lyncea feuic erudicio, ac vericatem opacances er- 
ran- 
