Gnte Herbau 49 
tb in the Preface to his Herbal," where 
he obferves, that, " as yet there was no 
*^ Engliih Herbal but one, al full of un- 
learned cacographees, and falfely naming 
of herbs." 
The general order is that of the alpha* 
bet, according to the Latin names, each 
fubjed: forming a chapter, in the whole five 
hundred and five j of which, more than four 
hundred refpefl: the vegetable produftions ^ 
and of thefe one hundred and fifty bear the 
names of plants which are natives of 'Eng- 
land: but the writer remarks no other dif- 
tindtion, by which they are known from 
the exotics. The names are given in La- 
tin and Engliili, but throughout the whole 
fcarcely any defcriptions. The qualities, 
whether hot or coldy dry or fnoijl^ accord- 
ing to the Galenic mode of the time, is in- 
variably noticed, followed generally by a 
prolix account of the difeafes to which the 
plant is applicable, and th6 method of 
ufing it. 
To each is prefixed a coarfe wooden -cut 
figure, as in the Hortus Sanitatisy from 
Vol, I; E which. 
