loS CHAP T E R 
To thefe miift be added the well-known 
names of Gerard and Parkinson. 
NEW T O N, 
There is an Herbal to the Bible," faid 
to be written by T/jomas Newton^ and 
printed in 1587. 8°. This author, after 
having praftifed phyfic^ became a divine and 
fchoolmafteFj, at Ilford^ in E[)ex ; where he 
died in 1607. His book, I believe, is only 
a tranflation of Levini Lemnii Expli- 
catio SimUitudimim qucz in Bibliis ex herbis 
it arboribus JuniunttirJ^ Lemnius, who 
was a phyfician in the province of Zealand^ 
briefly defcribes the plants of the holy Scrip- 
tures, and produces a number of curious 
"pliilological obfervations refpeding the ufes 
of plants in ceremonial and facred rites. 
He alfo wrote a memorable v/ork, De Mi- 
raculis occultis Naturce. The lingular pro- 
Plumier alfo commemorated Pena, by giving his 
3fiame to one of his new American plants , which, as it 
proved to be a fpecies of Folygala^ was transferred by the 
author of the fexual fydem, to an Ethiopian plant of the 
tetrandrous clafSj though allied in habit to the Ericce and 
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