Gerard. 
Ill 
can recoiled:, that when they were young in 
fcience, there was no better fource of Bota- 
nical intelligence, in the E^tglijh tongue, 
than the Herbals of Gerard and Park- 
inson. 
It has been obferved, that the early edi- 
tion of DoDOENs's book, as tranflated by 
Clusius, had been the bails of Lyte's 
Herbal j and, as the la ft edition of the fame 
author became the foundation of Ge- 
rard's, this circumftance renders it not 
unfuitable here to take fome notice of an 
author, although a foreigner, to whom he 
owed fo much of that credit, which has 
p;:eferved his memory to the prefent times. 
Remberf Dodoens, or Dodon^us, was 
born in 1517, near Mechlin in Flanders^ 
He became confpicuous for his various eru- 
dition when young j was phyiician for fome 
time to the Emperor Maximilian^ and his^ 
fon Rodolph IL The importunity of his 
friends procured his difmiilion from the 
Emperor's fervice, and he fettled at A?2t-' 
werp ; was afterwards profciTor at Leyden^ 
and died in 1586. He wrote on afcronomy, 
geography, and phytic; but is remembered 
now. 
