Gerard,- 12^ 
Lob EL adds, that he has inverted thediftri^ 
bution of the chapters in Dodoens's book, 
and adopted that of the Adverfaria. This 
may be confidered as a futile objeftion, and 
even turned into an approbation of Lobel^s 
method ; but he charges him alfo with 
largely plundering the Adverfaria^ without 
^ny acknowledgment. 
Gerard comprifes the whole vegetable 
kingdom in three books. The Jirjl con- 
Jains the graffes, grain, ruihes, reeds, flags, 
and bulbous-rooted plants. The fecond, all 
herbs ufed in diet, phyiic, or for ornament 
and pleafure. The thirdy trees, fhrubs, fruit- 
bearing plants, rofins, gums, rofes, heaths^ 
moffes, mufhrooms, and fea plants. The 
whole divided into upwards of eight hun- 
dred chapters, which, in the arrangement 
of that time, may, if the expreffion is al- 
lowable, be confidered as fo many genera. 
In each chapter the feveral fpecies are 
defcribed; then follow the place, time of 
flowering, names, and virtues. 
The figures Mr. Norton procured from 
Frankfort, being the fame blocks which had 
|)ee|i ufed for the Dutch Herbal of Taber- 
N-^MONTANUS 
