104 CHAPTERS. 
The fecond part of the Adverfaria is but 
a fmall part of the whole. It prefents us 
with a lift of one hundred and thirty fpe- 
cies of graffes, known to the author : this is 
followed by the figures and defcriptions of 
fome new and rare kinds, of the fame tribe. 
A number of new plants of the liliaceous 
and bulbous-rooted order ; a copious ac- 
count, with a figure, of the yucca^ lately 
introduced ^ concluding with a catalogue 
from Clusius, of thirty -eight varieties of 
Anemone — a proof of the flourifhing ftate of 
the Florift's art, in the beginning of the 
laft century 5 at which time it is certain, 
from Lob el's book, that many people were 
very afiiduous in the cultivation of exotics. 
In 1576, Lob EL publifhed a book, well 
known, and much quoted fince, by the 
name of Observationes ; five Stirpium 
mjloricey mi annexum efi Adverja^'iorwn Vo-^ 
lumen. In fol. cum Iconihus.'' 
By the ailiftance of Planting this volume 
was accompanied with i486 figures, which 
had been cut for the works of Clusius, 
Matthiolus, and Dodon^us. 
In 1 58 1 it was tranflated into Dutch, to-' 
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