LobeL 1 01 
Materia Medka folidam cognitionem. Metho- 
do exquijitijjima^ a notioribm fummifque claf- 
Jium generibus ad nlthnas ufqiie fpecies digefta. 
Author thus Petro P e n etMatthia i/t" L o B e L 
medicis. ^ibus acceJitKi^T era Pa r cum 
frioris iUuJirationihtu\ cafiigattonibus ^ avMa- 
riisy rarioribiis Plantis. SeleBioribus remedris^ 
fuccis raedicatts et metallicisy medicince thefau^ 
f^isy opii opiati antidott^ decant at ijjimique chy^ 
mtjlariim et germanorum laudani opiati for- 
mulis. Opera et Studio Matthice de Lobel, 
Londini 1605, 549. 
Accejjit Matthi6e de Label y in Rondeletii 
Methodicam Pharmaceuticam animadverjioms 
cum Myrei par agr aphis » pp. 156.'' 
Reprinted at Frankfort in 1651. 
In the execution of this work, there is 
Exhibited, I beheve, the firft fketch, rude 
as it is, of a natural method of arrange- 
ment ; which, however, extends no far- 
ther than throwing the plants into large 
tribes, families, or orders, according to 
the external appearance, or habit of the 
whole plant or flower ; without eftablifli- 
ing any definitions or charaders. The 
whole forms forty-four tribes. Some con- 
H 3 taia 
