50 C H A P T E R 4' 
which, on a fomewhat fmaller fcale, they 
are evidently copied ; confifting generally of 
outlines only. Each block is two inches 
high, and nearly as wide. Many of thefe 
figures are fidlitious, and many mifplaced. 
In a variety of inftances the fame figure is 
prefixed to different plants, and in very few 
' are they fufHciently expreflive of the habit, 
to difcriminate even a well-known fubjeft, 
if the name applied did not fuggeft the idea 
of it. In fome, thefe icons are whimfically 
abfurd, efpecially in the animals and mine- 
i^als, being alfo copies of thofe in the Hortus 
Sanitatis. Thofe of the Mandrake, for ex- 
ample, exhibit two perfedlly human figures, 
v^ith the plant growing from the head of 
each ^ though, to do the writer juftice, he 
acknowledges, that no fuch thing exifts in 
nature. At the end is fubjoined, an ex- 
planation of fome terms and a tradt 
on urines." 
A S C H A M. 
Anthony Ascham, a prieft, and vicar of 
Burmfiton in Torkjhire, to which he was 
preferred 
