3^ CHAPTER 2* 
Merhaly feems alfo to have been In common 
life in Englandy before the sra of printing* 
Authors do not allow it to be the produftion 
of Mmilius Macer quoted by Ovid, but 
of much later date, and by fome it is af- 
cribed to Odo, or Odobonus, a phyfician 
of the later times, and probably a French- 
man. This barbarous poem is in leonine 
verfe, and is entitled D^' AT'i^^/^ffm, ^alita-* 
tibuSy & Virtutibus Herb arum. Divers 
manufcripts of it are extant in the Englifli 
libraries ; as, at Cambridge^ in the Bodleian^ 
A[hmoleany and Sloanean colleclions. 
It v^as tranflated into Englifh, as Bifliop 
Tanner informs us, hy John Lelamar, 
mafler of Hereford fchool, v^ho lived about 
the year I373« His manufcript is referred 
to as in Sloane's library. Even Linacre. 
did not difdain to employ himfelf on this 
work. " Macer^s Herbal praftyfyd by 
Dodor Linacro, tranflated out of Latin 
** into Englifh, London, i2mo.'' Ames 
mentions an edition of it printed in 1542 ; 
and Palmer, one without date, printed by 
Wyre. This jejune performance, which 
is written wholly on Galenic principles, 
treats 
