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which they were taken,as in die chapter of Alehoofe : it may be they are not fo perfect as 
they lhould be in fome very few other places, (for I could not compare all) but if you 
fufpett any fuch thing, haue recourfe to that Author, and you fhall finde full fatisfadion. 
Now come I to the Temper and Vertues. Thefe commonly were taken forth of the 
fore-mentioned Author, and here and there out of Labels Obferuations, and Camtrarius 
his Hortus medicos. Tothefehealfo adddedfome few Receipts of his owner thefelhaue 
not altered, but here and there fhewed to which they did mod properly belong ; as alfo 
if I found themotherwife than they ought, I noted it ; or if invnfit places, I haue trans- 
ferred them to the right place, and in diners things whereof our Author hath bin filent, I 
haue fupplied that defeft. 
For my additions I will here fay nothing, but refer you to the immediate enfuing Ca- 
talogue, which will enforme you what is added onely in figure,ordefcription,or in both, 
by which, and thefe two formerly mentioned marks, you may fee what is much altered 
or added in the Work; for this marke f put either to figure, or before any claufe, (hews it 
to haue bin otheriv ile put before;Or that claufe whether itbein defeription, Place, Time, 
Names, or Vertues to be much altered. This other marke \ put to a figure fiiewes it noc 
to haue been formerly in the worke, but now added ; and put in any other place it ihewes 
all is added vntill you come to another of the fame marks. But becaufeit is fomtimeso- 
mitted, I will therefore giue notice in the 'Errata where it fhouldbe put, in thofe places 
where I obferue either the former or later of them to be wanting. 
Further, I mull acquaint you how there were the defetiptions of a few plants here and 
there put in vnfitting places,which made me deferibe them as new added, as Saxifragama- 
itr c Mattbioli, Pcrpcaria (iliquofa, of whjch in the chapter of Pcrpcaria there was an ill de- 
feription, but a reafonablegood one in the chapter of Aprantia nigra. Papaiier Jpinofom^ as 
figured and deferibed amongft the Cardui -, now all thefe (as I faid) I added as new in the 
mod fitting places : yet found them afterwards deferibed, but put them out all , except 
thelaft, whofe hiftorie I (fill retaining, with a reference to the preceding figure and Hi- 
ftorie. Note alfo, wherefoeuer my Author formerly mentioned Clupus, according to his 
SpanifhorPannonicke Obferuations, I haue made it, according to his Hiftorie, which 
containes them both with additions. 
Alfolmuftcertifieyou, (becaufel know it is a thing that fome will thinke ftrange, 
that the number of the pages in this booke do no more exceed that of the former, confi- 
dering there is fuch a large acccffion of matter and figures) the caufe hereof is. each page 
containes diners lines more than the former, the lines themfeluesalfo being longer; and 
by the omiftion of deferiptions and figures put twice or thrice oner, and the Kindes,vnne- 
ceflarily put in fome places, I gaifed as much asconueniently I could, beeing defirous 
that it might be bound together in one volume. 
Thus haue I fhewed what I haue performed in this Worke, entreating you totake this 
my Labor in good part; and if there be any defeft therein (as needs there rauft in all hu- 
mane works) aferibe it in part to my hafteand many bufinefles, and in fome places to the 
want offufficient information, efpecially in Exoticke things-, and in other fome, to the 
little conuerfation I formerly had with this Author, before fuch time as (ouercome by 
the importunitieoffome friends, and the generall want of fuch a Worke) I tooke this 
taskevponme. Furthermore I defire, thatnonevroild rafhly cenfureme for thatwhich I 
haueberedone ; but they that know inwhattime I did it,andwhothemfelues are able to 
do as much as I haue here performed ; for to fuch alone 1 fhall giue free libertie,and will 
beasready toyeeld further fatisfa&ion if they defire it, concerning any thingl haue 
hcreafferted, as I fhall be apt tonegledtand fcorne the cenfureofthe Ignorant and Vn- 
lcarncd,who I know are ftiil forward toverifie our Englifh prouerbe * 
I muft not in filencepaffe ouer thofe from whom I haue receiued any fauouror incou- ' ’ ’ 
ragement, whereby I mightbethe'oetterenabled to performe this Taske. In the firft 
place let me remember the onely Affiftant I had in this Worke, which was M ' .John Geod- 
yer of Maple Durham in Hampfhire, from whom I receiued many accurate deferiptions, 
and fome other obferuations concerning plants ;the which (defirous togiueeuery man 
his due) I hauecaufed to be fo printed, as they may be diftinguifhed from the reft .-and 
thus you fhall know them; in the beginning is the name of the plant in Latinein a line 
bv it felfe, and at the end his name is inferted ; fb that the Reader may eafily finde thofe 
things that I had from him, and I hope together with me will be thankfull to him, that he 
would fo readily impart them for the further increafe of this knowledge. 
M 1 '. George Bowles of Chiflelhurft in Kent muft not here be forgot, for by his trauells 
and induflry I haue had knowledge of diuers plants, which were not thought nor formerly 
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