Lobei^ 99 
Only feen it m the colleftion of the late Mr« 
Guljlon, 
The iirfl of Lobel's publications, and 
tvhich more eminently agrees with the de- 
fign of this work, as it brought a large ac- 
ceffion to Englifh Botany, was the Stirpium 
Adverfaria, The profeffed intention of this 
work was to inveftigate the Botany and 
materia medica of the antients, and parti- 
cularly of DioscoRiDEs j and Lobel is 
judged to have corredled the errors of 
Mattkiolus, upon that author, in many 
infcances. 
As Pen A was jointly concerned with 
Lobel in this work, it is become impof- 
fible, at this time, to affign to each their 
feparate feare. The firft edition of ths 
Adverfariay dated at London i^yo, was 
dedicated to the queen. This dedication 
was omitted in an edition printed at Ani-- 
"werp in 1576* Editions bearing date 1571? 
1572, are recorded, but it may be doubted 
whether thefe were more than title-page 
alterations. To that of the whole Adver- 
fariay which bears date London 1605, by 
Purfoot alfo, is prefixed Lob el's Animad^ 
H 2 ver/wfies 
