l6a CHAPTER 12. 
MONTANUS obtained the ufe of this co!-* 
ledion, namely, thofe of Fuchsius, Clu- 
sius, LoBEL, and Dodon^us; to which 
he added thofe of Matthiolus; info- 
much that his Herbal, printed at Fr^?;^;^;-/ in 
1588, comprehends more than two thou- 
fand figures. Dalechamp, in his Ge- 
" neral Hiftory of Plants," printed about 
the fame time, augmented them to near 
two thoufand feven hundred. 
The fate of Gesner's excellent figures 
I can but briefly mention j it forms a mor- 
tifying, but curious anecdote, in the literary 
hiftory of the fcience. Of the fifteen hun- 
dred figures left by Gesner, prepared for 
his Hiftory of Plants," at his death, in 
1565, a large fhare pafled into the Epi^ 
tome MatthioHy" publiftied by Camera- 
Rius in 1586, which contained in the whole 
1003 figures ; and in the fame year, as alfo 
into a fecond edition in 1590, they embel- 
lillied an abridged tranflation of Mat- 
THioLUs, printed under the name of the 
German Herbal." In 1609, the fame 
blocks were ufed by Vffcnbach for the Her- 
bal of Castor Durantes, printed at 
Frankfort. This publication, however, 
comprehends 
