To the Trader. 
of this prcfent Worke, as I (hall Chew hereafter. Ithath fincebeene printed in Latine, 
with the addition of fome few new figures: and of late in Dutch, Anno i6i8.vvith thead- 
dition of the fame figures ; and mold of tbefe in the Exoticks of Clitfius, and great ftorc of 
other additions. Hisgenerall method is this : firft he diuides his Works into fixPemp- 
tades or fiues : the fifth Pcmptas or fine bookes of tbefe containe Plants in an Alphabe- 
tical! order, yet fo as that other Plants that haue affinitie with them are comprehended 
with them, though they fall not into the order of the Alphabet. The fecond Pempt.con- 
taines Flores Coronarij, Plant spodirata & vmbelliferx. The third is Dc Piadtcibus,Pitrgamibus 
Herbis, convolvuli!, delcterijsacperniciofis Plant is, Filicibus, M ufc is & Fungis. The fourth is 
De Trumtntis , Lcgumimbus,paliifiribus cr aquatilibus. The fifth, Dc Olenbus & Cardu/s.lhc 
f\xih,de Frnticibuicr Arberibus. The particular method is the fame vfed by our Au- 
thor. 
MiUb‘uin. * n tIls y eare 1 57 °> ¥etcr ?enA and Matthias Ubcl did here at London fet forth a Worke, 
entituled Stiff turn Aducrfana noun ; the chiefe end and intention whereofbeing to find out 
the Materiamedicaofthe Antients. Thegenerall method is the fame with that of our 
Author, which is, putting things together as they haue mod refemblance one with ano- 
ther in external 1 forme, beginning with Grailes, Comes, &c. They giue few figures.but 
fometimes refer you to Fnchfius, Dodonaus, and Matthiolus .■ but where the figure was’not 
giuen by former Authors, then they commonly giue it ; yet mod part of tilde figures arc 
very finall and vnperfefl, by reafon (as I conieAure) they were t.ik< n from dried plants. 
In this Worke they infill little vpon thevertues of Plants, but fuccin&ly handle contro-" 
uerfies, and giue theiropinions of Plants, together with their deferiptions and names 
which fometimes are in all thefe languages, Greeke,Latine,French,bigh and low Dutch’ 
and Englifh : otberwhiles in but one or twoofthem. Some Writers for this Work call 
them Dottifiimi Angli ; yet neitherof them were borne here, for Pena (as 1 take it) was a 
French man, and Lobel was borne at Ry (Tele in Flanders, yetliued mod part of his later 
time in this Kingdome, and here alfo ended his dayes. In the yeare i 57 6 he fet forth his 
Obferuations, and ioyned them with the oMdticrfana, by them two to make one entire 
Worke : for in his Obferuations he giues mod part of the figures and verities belonging 
to thofeherbes formerly deferibed onely in the i_Aducr[aria ; and to thefe alfo adds forrm 
new ones not mentioned in the former Worke. After which he fet forth an HerbalJ in 
Dutch, wherein he comprehended all thofe Plants that were in the two former Workes 
and added diuers other to them, the Worke containing fomeanfi figuresjwhich were 
printed afterwards in a longiili forme, with the Latine names, and references to the La- 
tine and Dutch bookes. Afterallthefe,atLondon,^»?M i<?os,he againe fet forththe 
e yidteerftria , together with the fecond part thereof, wherein is contained fome fourty fi- 
gures , being mod of them of Graffcs and FloureS . but the deferiptions were of fome 
ioo plants, varieties and all.To this he added a Treatife of Balfam (which alfo was fet 
forth alone in Quarto, Anno 1598.) and the Pharmacopaa of Rondelctius , with Annotations 
vpon it. He intended another great Worke, whofe title fhould haue beene Stirpiurn iil u - 
firationes, but was preuented by death. 
CtrtUlupiu. Some fix yeares after the Edition of the Aduerfaria, Anno 1576, that learned, diligent 
and laborious Herbarift Carol. Cltifiiu fet forth his Spanifh Obferuations, hauin°- to this 
purpole trauelled oner a great part of Spaine ; and being afterwards called to th? Impe- 
riall Court by Maximilian the fecond, he viewed Auftria and the adiacent prouinces, and 
fet forth his there Obferuation,cto»0 1583. Healfo tranflated out of Spanifh the Works 
of Garcias ab ewaand chnftopher Acofia, treating of the fimple medicines of the Eaft In- 
dies, and Nicolas Monardus, who writ of thofe of the Weft Indies. After this he put into 
one body both his Spanifh and Pannonicke Obferuations, with fome other, and thofe he 
comprehends in fix bookes, entituled Rarionm Plant arum HiHoria : whereto’healfoaddes 
Hoim.tellm. an Appendix, a treatife of Mufhroms, fix Epiftles treating of Plants,from Honorim Bellies 
an Italian Phyfition lining at Cydonia in Candy ; as alfo thedefeription of mount Bal- 
dus,bemga Catalogue with thedefeription and figures offome rare and not before writ- 
loMoni. ten of Plants there growing, written by John Ponaan Apothecarieof Verona (This De- 
fcriptionofPwia’rwasaftervvardswith fome new deferiptions and thirty fix figures fet 
forth aione in Quarto, An 1 60S. ) This firft Volume of C Inf us was printed in Antwerp 
I^inno 1 60 1 , in Fol io : and in the yeare 1 60 5 he alfo in Folio fet forth in another volume’ 
fix bookes of Exoticks containing various matter, as plants, or fome particles of them, as 
Fruits, Woods, Barks, &c. as alfo the forenamed tranflations of Garcias, Acofia, and Mo - 
nardus : Three T rafts befides of the fame Monardu , . the firft, Be lapide Bezaar,& picrba 
Scorfincra. The fecond, De Ferro & tins faefitaubus : The third, Dc Tfiite & eius commodis. 
