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terval the fcience had been augmented, and 
not lefs enriched j by the writings of Cm- 
SALPiNUs, in 1583; by the Epitome of 
Camerarius, in 1586; by the Hi/lona 
Lugdtmenjis of D ALECK AM?, in 1587; by 
the Sy/'va Harcynia of Thalius ; and ef- 
peclally by the Htftoria and Icones of Ta-^ 
BERNy^LMONTANUs, in 1588 and 1590. 
To thefe may be added, a number of 
collateral refources, which the growing 
commerce and fpirit of the times rendered 
favourable to his purpofes. I will briefly 
mention the following : the Materia Me^ 
dica had, for a feries of years, been per- 
petually augmenting, by a variety of nevV 
drugs, which were eagerly fought after, 
the origin of which, notwithfianding, was 
in many inftances obfcure, and in others 
as yet unknown. At length the publication 
of GArCias ab HoRTo on the fimples 
of the Eaft Indies, of Monardes on thofe 
of the Well, and afterwards of ChriJlGpher 
a Costa's book, fatisfied, for a time, tlie 
impatience of tht public, 
Thefe authors were tranilated into Eng- 
lilh. James Fr amp ton , a merchant of 
London^ 
