To the ‘Rpader. 
To thcfe he alfo added Bellenius his Obferuations or Singularities, and a trad of the fame 
Author, Dcniglettn Stirpmm culture, both formerly tranilated out of French into Latine 
by him. Hewas borne at Atrebasor Arras, the chiefecity of Artois, eAnno 152 6. and 
diedat Leyden, Ann. 1 609. After his death, by Etierard Forftins, Peter Paw, or fome o- 
thers, were (et forth fome additions and emendations ofhis former Works, together with 
his funerall Oration made by V or Him, his Epitaph, See. in Quarto, x^Anno ion, by the 
nameofhis Cum Po'fttriores. . 
Intheyeare 1583, Andreas Ctfalpintti an Italian Phyfition, and ProfefTor atPifa, fet nodr.cepd(. 
forth an hiftorie of Plants, comprehended in fixteene bookes: his Worke iswithout fi- 
gures, and he oft rimes giues theTufcane names for Latine; wherefore his worke is the 
more difficult to bevnderftood, vnlefte itbe by fuch as haue been in Tufcanie,or elfeare 
already well exercifed in this ftndy. He commonly in his owne words diligently for the 
moft part deferibes each Plant, and then makes enquirie whether they were knowne by 
the Antients. He feldome fets downe their faculties, vnlefle of fome, to which former 
Writers haue put downe none. In the firftbookc he treats of Plants in generall , accor- 
ding as T beojihrafim doth :but in the following bookes hee handles them in particular: 
he maketh the chiefe affinity of Plants to confift in the fimilitudeof their feeds and feed 
veflels. 
loachimm Canter trim a Phyfition of Norembcrg flourifhed about this time: Hee fet uuh.Camtrl 
forth the Epitome of CM.atth.ohu, with fomeadditions and accurate figures, in Quarto, 
at Frankfort, 1 5 86 : in the end ofwhich Worke (as alfo in that fet forth by OHatthioIm 
himfelfe) is iter Baldt, or a journey from Verona to mount Baldus, written by Franca Cal- Pf.ciieioUtiui 
ceolanus an Apothccarie of Verona. Another Workeof Camerarius was his Bortus CMe. 
elicits, being an Alphabetical! enumeration of Plants, wherein is fet forth many things 
concerning the names, ordering, vertues, &c.of Plants. To this he anexed HyrcinU Seixo- 
mthuringica lohanna T halij, or an alphabetical! Catalogue written by John T halms pi fuch ub-Thalim. 
Plants as grew in Harkwald a part of Germanie betweene Saxony and Durengen. This 
was printed alfo at Frankfort in Quarto, An. 1588. 
Intheyeare 1 5 87 came forth the great Hiftorie of Plants printed at Lyons,which is 
therefore vulgarly termed Biftoria Lugdunenfis i it was begun by Dalechampius : but hee Hifi.iugd. 
dying before the finifhing thereof, one lohn UBoUmus fet it forth, but put not his name 
thereto. Itwas intended tocomprehend all that had written before, and fo it doth, but 
with a great deale of confufion; which occafioned Bauhine to write atreatifeof the errors 
committed therein, in which he fhewes there are about foure hundred figures twice or 
thriceouer. The whole number of the figures in this Worke are 2686. This Hiftory is 
diuided intoeighteene bookes, and the Plants in each booke arc put together either by 
the places oftheir growings, as in Woods, copfes, mountaines, waterie places,&c. or by 
their externall fhape, as vmbelliferous, bulbous, &c. or by their qualities, as purging, 
poyfonous, &c. Herein are many places of Thecphrajlus and other antient Writers ex- 
plained. He commonly in each chapter giues the names, place, forme, vertue, as moft 
other do. And attheendthereofthereisan Appendix containing fome Indian plants, 
for the moft part out of Acojla • as alfo diners Syrian and Egyptian plants defcribed by Lm.Uvtir. 
Reinold Rawol r e a Phyfition of Ausburgh . 
At this time, to wit Anno 1588, Jacobus Theodorus Tabernamontanus fet forth an Hiftory rabtntmot. 
of Plants in the Germane tongue, and fome twelueyeares after his Figures being in all 
2087, were fet forth in a long forme, with the Latine and high-Dutch names put vnto 
them ; and with thcfe fame Figures was this Worke of our Author formerly printed. 
Proffer Alfinus a Phyfition of Padua in Italy, in the yeare 1592 fet forth a Treatife of j 
fome Egyptian Plants, with large yetnot very accurate figures: he there treats of fome 
46 plants, and at theend thereof is a Dialogue or TreatifeofBalfam. Some fix ycares 
agon e,Anno 1 627, his Son fet forth two bookes ofhis fathers, DePlantis Exoticis , with 
the figures cut in Braffe : this Worke containes fome 1 jfiPIants. 
F abuts Columns a gentleman ofNaples,ofthe houfe of Co/hw» 4 of Rome, An. fet v MoUmats 
forth a Treatife called pbytebafemos, or an Examination of Plants; fot therein he examines 
and aflerts fome plants to be fuch and fuch of the Antients : and in the end of this worke 
he giues alfo the hiftorieoffomenot formerly defcribed plants. Hee alfo fetforth two 
other bookes, D e minus cognitis, or oflefle knowne Plants : the firft of which was printed 
atRome, Anno 1606 ; and the other Heinthefe works, which in all contain little 
aboue two hundred thirty fix plants, fhewes himfelfe a man of an exquifit iudgment, and 
very learned and diligent, duely examiningand weighing each circumftance ia the wri- 
tingsofthe Antients, 
