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To the Trader. 
r.afp. Baubas. Cajpar Bauhine, aPhyfition and ProfelForof Bafil, befides his Anatomicall Works/et 
forth diuers of Plants. Anno 1596 he fet forth his Phytopinax, ai Index of Plants, wherein 
he followes the belt method that any yet found ;for according to Lol/els method (which 
our Author followed)he begins with Graffes, hmfhes, &c. but then he briefely giues the 
EtymologieofthenameinGreekeandLatine,ifany fuchbe,and tells you who of the 
Antients writ thereof, and in what part of their Works : and laftly (which I chiefly com- 
mend him for) he giues th cSynonima’s or feuerall names of each plant giuen by each late 
W riter, and quoteth the pages. Now there is nothing more troubles fuch as newly enter 
into this ftudy, than the diuerfitie of names, which fometimes for the fame plant are dif- 
ferent in each Author; fome of them not knowing that the plant they mention was for- 
merly written of, name it as a new thing • others knowing it writ of, yet not approuingof 
the name. In this Worke he went but through fome halfe 6f the hiftorie of Plants. Af- 
ter this. Anno 1 598, he fet forth Matthiolus his Commentaries vpon Diofcortdes , adding to 
them 330 Figures, and the deferiptions of fifty new ones nbt formerly deferibed by any ; 
together with the Synonimds of all fuch as were deferibed in the Worke. He alfo Anno 
161 3 fet forth Tabcrnamontanus in Dutch, with fome addition of hiftorie and figures. In 
Amo\6io\x. fet forth the Prodromus, or fore-runner of his 'ThcatnmBotanicum , wherein 
he giues a hundred and forty new figures, and deferibes fome fix hundred plants, the moll 
not deferibed by others. After this, Anno 161%-, he fet forth his APinax Thextn Botanic/, 
whofe method is the lame with his Phytopinax, but the quotations o}' the pages in the fe- 
uerall Authors are omitted. This is indeed the Index and fummepf his great and genel 
rail Worke, which fhould containe about fix thoufand plants, and was a Worke of forty 
yeares .-but he is dead fome nine yearesagonc, and yet this his great worke is not in the 
Prelfe,that I can heare of. | , ■ 
ufilitfltr. Bajil Bejler an Apothecarie of Noremberg, Anno 1613 fet forth the garden of the Bi- 
lhop of Eyftet in Bauaria, the figures being very large, and all curioufly cut in braffe,and 
printed vpon the Iargcft paper : he onely gibes the Synonimas and deferiptions, and diui- 
deth the worke firft into foure parts, according to the foure feafons of the yeare ; and then 
againe he fubdiuides them, each into three, fiJ that they agree with the moneths, putting 
in each Clalfis the plants that flourifh at that time. 
Thefe are the chiefe and greateft part of thofe that either in Greeke or Latine ( whofe 
Works lratte come to our hands) haue deliuered tovs the hiftory of Plants ; yet there are 
fome who hauevfed great diligence to helpe forward this knowledge, whole names I wil 
not pafle ouer in filencc. The firft and antienteft of thefe was ^Moyfius AnguiUara a phy- 
lition of Padua, and Prefident of the publique Garden there :lris opinions of fome plants 
were fet forth in Italian at Venice, r y 61 ■ 
Melchior GuiUandinuspvho fuccecded AnguiUara in the garden at Padua, writ an A polo-' 
gie againft eMatthiolus, fome Epiftlesofplants.anu a Commentarie vpon three Chap- 
ters of Pliny, He Papyro. 
Ferantes Jmperatus an Apothecary of Naples alfo fet forth a Natural! Hiftorie diuided 
into twenty eight bookes, printed at Naples Annoi^g^. In this there is fomething of 
Plants :but I haue not yet feenc the opinions o( AnguiUara, nor this Naturall Hiftorie ; 
yet you flrall find frequent mention of both thefe in rnoft of the forementioned Authors 
that writ in their time, or fince, wherefore I could not omit them. 
Let me now at laft looke home, and fee who we haue had that haue taken pains in this 
kinde. The firft that I finde worthy of mention is .WiUtam Turner, the firft of whole 
works that I haue feene, was a little booke of the names of herbes, in Greeke,Latine,En- 
glifh, Dutch, and French, &c. printed at London Anno 1548. In the yeare 15 5 r he fet 
forth his Herbal or Hiftorie of Plants, where he giues the figures of Fuchfius, for the moll 
part : he giues the Names in Latine, Greeke,Dutch, and French : he did not treat of many 
Plants ; his method was according to the Latine alphabet. He was a man of good iudg- 
ment and learning, and wel performed what he tooke in hand . 
After this, Hodonaus was tranflated intoEnglifh by M’.Lyte, as I formerly mentioned. 
And fome yeares after, our Author fet forth this Worke, whereof I will prefently treat, 
hailing firft made mention of a Worke fet forth betweenc that former Edition, and this 
I now prefent you withall. 
M r . John Parkinfon an Apothecarie of this city (yet lining and labouring for the com- 
mon good) in the yeare 1623 fet forth a Worke by the name of Par ad fus terrejlrys, where- 
in he giues the figures of all fuch plants as are preferued in gardens, for the beauty of their 
floures,forvfe in meats or fauces ; and alfo an Orchard of ail trees bearing fruit,and fuch 
fhrubs as for their raritie or beauty are kept in Orchardsand gardens, with the ordering, 
planting, 
Alojf.yinv*lU, 
MtlchUr Gull- 
iandimu. 
fer % Impcrato. 
(ViU,Tumr. 
He»,Lyte. 
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