418 PRINCIPLES OF BOTANY, ETC. 
of his work* he treated pretty accurately of those 
plants, which grow in Germany, and represented 
the described plants in 567 figures, which are not 
quite bad. It is an objection made to him that he 
neglected the virtues of the plants, though he knew 
them perfectly well, and that he used the writings © 
of the ancients too little. 
Euricus Cordus was born in a small village in 
Hessia, and died 1538. He taught and practised 
medicine in Erfurt, Marburg, and Bremen. Ac- 
cording to the general opinion, he was one of the 
most learned men of. his age. He wrote several 
treatises on plants, especially those described by the 
ancientst. 
His son Valerius Cordus was born 1515, and was 
unfortunately, when on his way to Rome, 1544, 
killed by a horse. His works} are rare, and the 
editions of Dioscorides which We a ae are still 
thought valuable. 
* Hicronymus Boak or Bock called Tragus, Kraeuterbuch 
von den vier Elementen, Thieren, Voegeln, and Fischen. 
Strasburg. 1546. fol. We have a Latin, new, altered Ger- 
man, and different new editions of the old one. This work 
begins to be scarce. 
+ Eurici Cordi Botanologicon, sive Colloquium de herbis. 
Coloniae. 1534. 8vo. His son published a second edition at 
Paris, 1551, in 12mo. 
t+ Valerii Cordi Historia stirpium Argentorati. 1561. fol. 
The famous Conrad Gesner published this work after the au- 
thor’s death. The figures are taken from Tragus, and only 
60 arenew. The Zurich edition is quite the same. 
Conrad 
