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NAMES OF THE AUTHORS

whose works we have utilized.

ADAM Lonicer: he expanded the herbal of Eucharius Röslin, his predecessor in office at Frankfurt, which was written in German, into a quarto volume; it was last published in the year 1569. Later, having removed Eucharius's name, he prefixed his own and issued it with about 833 figures in the year 1582. Frankfurt.

ADAM Zaluziansky’s three books on the herbal method. original: "methodi herbariæ" Frankfurt 1604. 4to.

ADRIAN Junius, Physician: a "phallus" A stinkhorn mushroom, named for its shape. from the genus of fungi in Holland. Delft 1564. 4to. with a figure.

ADRIAN Spigelius, Professor at Padua: two books of Introductions to Botanical Matters. original: "Isagoges in rem herbariam" Padua 1606. 4to.

The work of the ADVERSARIA by Pierre Pena and Matthias de Lobel, published in London in the year 1570, with about 284 figures added; later, in the year 1576, a new title was prefixed at Antwerp and the letter to the Queen omitted; to this work Lobel joined two Observations with new figures.

EGIDIUS Everard of Antwerp: a short commentary on the panacea herb or Tobacco original: "Nicotiana", setting forth its powers; also by the same author, on the use of the Mechoacan root. A Mexican root used as a purgative. Antwerp 1587. 16mo.

AEMILIUS Macer of Verona’s poem on the Virtues of Herbs, with a brief exposition of the more obscure parts by Georg Pictorius of Villingen, Physician. Basel, with 52 figures taken from Crescentius. 1581. 8vo.

ALEXANDER Petronius: five books on the Diet of the Romans and the Preservation of Health. Rome 1592. 4to.

LUIGI Anguillara, the third director in order of the Garden at Padua, communicated his opinions on plants to various people; the small work, divided into 14 parts, was issued in Italian through the efforts of Giovanni Marinelli (with two figures added of the Chameleon and the Tree-like Stonecrop) at Venice, 1561, in 8vo.

LUIGI Mundella, Physician of Brescia, the second director in order of the Garden at Padua: he wrote one book of Letters (containing 36 letters) and Annotations on the Examination of Simples by Brasavola; printed together with the Letters of Manardus, Lyon 1556, in folio.

AMATUS Lusitanus’s narrations on the five books of Dioscorides, with the addition of names in various languages. Strasbourg 1554, in 4to.

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ANDREAS of Belluno, with notes on Avicenna. Avicenna was a Persian polymath whose "Canon of Medicine" was a standard medieval textbook.

ANDREA Cesalpino of Arezzo, Professor in the Academy of Pisa: he wrote 16 books on plants, with no figures added; they appeared at Florence in 1583. An appendix by the same author to these books, Rome 1603, in 4to.

ANDRÉS Laguna’s commentaries on Dioscorides with figures, written in the Spanish language. Salamanca 1552. folio.

Annotations on Dioscorides by the same author, in which the version by Ruellius is corrected. Lyon 1554. 16mo.

ANDRÉ Thevet’s Cosmography, published in French with several figures of plants and animals.

The same author’s Singularities of Antarctic France, or America, with 11 figures of plants, in French: Paris 1557. 4to. 1578 8vo

ANGELO Palea and Bartolomeo of Urbino, of the Order of Friars Minor of the Regular Observance of the Roman Province: annotations on the Antidotarium of Mesue. A standard manual of pharmacy/apothecary recipes. Venice 1543. folio.

ANTOINE Mizauld of Sens, a small work. Paris 1574. 8vo.

The same author’s Secrets of the Gardens; likewise on the Grafting of Trees and Tree-Anatomy. original: "dendranatome" Ibid. 1575. 8vo.

ANTONIO Musa Brasavola of Ferrara: an examination of all the simples Individual medicinal herbs or ingredients. which are in use in the apothecaries' shops. Lyon 1556. 16mo. 1548

ANTONIO Pasini’s annotations and emendations to the version of Dioscorides proposed by Mattioli: in Italian. Bergamo 1591. 4to.

APULEIUS Platonicus on the Virtues of Herbs, with the addition of a demonstration of the herbs of each of the signs of the Zodiac, as well as of the wandering stars. The planets. Paris 1528, in folio.

ATHENAEUS’s The Deipnosophists The Banquet of the Learned. in 15 books. Greek and Latin, with the interpretation of Dalechamps. 1597, in folio.

AGOSTINO Gallo of Brescia on Agriculture, in Italian. Venice 1569. 4to.

BARTHOLOMÄUS Carrichter’s book, showing under which sign of the Zodiac and in what degree the plants are situated, and when they are to be gathered; in German. Strasbourg 1589. 8vo.

BARTOLOMEO Maranta of Venosa, on me—