To it/re ‘1{eyzder.

Dr pmy}. and fet forthby M*Namm.. _Now. this tranﬂation became the ground-worlre whemupdn Mr Gerard built vp this V\/orke ; but that it might Illot appeare atranflation, he changes the generall method of Dadomm, into that or Lobe , and therein almoft all ouer fullowes his (cones both in method and names,as you may plainly fee in the Graffes and Ora/aides. To this tranﬂation he alfo added lome plants out of Cluﬁm,and other-- fome out of the cAdaeffma,and fome fourteene of his owne not before mentioned. Now to this hiitory ﬁgures were wantrng,whtch allo M‘ Norton procured from Frankfort, be- ing [hc fame wherewith the Works of Tabernaarrontanm were printed in_ Dutch : but this ft 11 cmrfg for my Author,who(as it fecmes)hauing no great iudgment in them,frequent- 1y put one for another : and beﬁdes there were many plantsin tho_fe Authors which hee followed,which were not inTal2ornamom4nw,and diners in him which they wanted,yet he put them altogether, and one for another 5 and oft times by this meanes fo confounded all,that none could pollibly haue fet them right,vnleffe they knew this occaﬁon of thefe cnors. By this meanes,and after this manner was the Worke of my Author made vp, which was printed at the charges of M‘ Norton Anna 1597. _ _ . _ _ _ Now it remaines I 8CqU'rIJ'lE you with what haue performed in this Edition which is citllerfby mending what was amiffe, orby adding fuch as formerly were wanting : fame places [helped by putting out,as the Kindes in the_Chap_ter of Stonecrop, wheare there was but one mentioned. lhaue alfo put out the Kindes in cliuers places elfe where,th_cy were not yery neceffary, by this meanes to get more roome for things «more necelfaneg as alfo diuers ﬁgures and defcriptions whic were put in two or three places, I haue put

them out in all but one,yet (0, as that I alwaies giue you notice where they were, and of what. Some words or palfages are alfo put out here and there, which I (I)IDl(€ needleffe to mention. Sometimes I mended what was amiffe or defeéiiue-,by altering oradding one or more words, as you mayrfrequently obferue, if you compare the former Edition with this,in fome few chaptersalmottin any place. But l_thinke I {hall bell fatisﬁe you if Ibriefely fpeciﬁe what isdone in each parr_icular,hauing ﬁrfi acquainted you with

what my generall intention was:I. determined,as well as the fhortne lie of my time would giue me leaue,to"retai‘ne and {er forth whatfoeuer was formerly in the booke defcribedpr ﬁguredwithout defcriptions (lome varieties that were not nc-ee ffary excepted) and to there Iintended toladdewhatfoeuer was ﬁgured by Iaaécl, Doa/amem, or C/z¢ﬁu4',whofe ﬁ. gures wemade VfC‘Of3 and alfo fuch plants as grow eirli-er W11‘-SUD! vfually in the gardens of this Ki’ngdome,whichwere.not mentioned by any of the torcnamed Authors ;for I neither thought» it fit nor requiﬁte. for me,ambitiora m a ime at all that Bauhine in his Pimzx reckons vp,0r the Exotickes of Pro/Per ’r7l,ﬂI:v«.- «f;-I:-.ntair‘ar, not mentioned in the for-4 met. This was my generall intention. Now co I ~ 1% '.,()‘.pCrtiru}ars ,and fur; nfﬁgmgs ; I haue,as1 faid,made vfe of tho’ e whcrewith the ‘v’ I «n—.§t'rt r)oa’omw: Loéet’, and Cluﬁatr ‘were formerly printed,which though form: of their ' M: '0 l“.‘_1’.‘tlVr}~{*.! are thev general lyas truly exprefhand fotnetimes more.VVhen 1 mt agv't:«;74blc tothe defcriptions were formerly in any place, I giue you notice then; m -rb a 1".‘.:rll(C of alteration before the title,-as alfo in the end of the Chapter 5 and i‘: I my w t-.l‘<:. not formerly in the booke, thenl giue you themwith a marke of addition. .“§- :-ch as were formerly ﬁgured in the booke, though put for other things 5al"d fo hauiny‘ on cclcription therein, 1 haue caufed

to be new cut and put into their ﬁt place-s;with def - ‘zptlons to them,and only a marke of

alteration. The next are the defcriptions,which I in-rite in rome places 1 ightly amended,‘

. without any IIQCICE tI]Cl'l°Ol 5 but when l[ {g rnuch altered, [hen giue I,yOIJ this “ marker at the beginning thereof 3 hut if It were rugh as that 1 com

d not helpe it but by t at the beginning and end ither in defcription or other- ,yet in fome places fupplied, obe falfe,which becaufe I had

writing a new one , then fhall you ﬁnde it with this marke thereof, as alfo whatfoeuer is added in the whole booke, e wife. The next is the Place, which I haue feldome altered and in others I haue put doubts,8z do fufpeél otherfome r not yet viewed I left as I found, The Time was athing of no fuch moment,for any mat- ter worth mentioning to be performed vpon, wherefore Iwill not infiﬂ vpon it. Names are of great importance, and in them I Ihould haue bin at little more curious if I had had mo;-grime, as you may fee I at the ﬁrfl haue beene; but ﬁnding it a troublefomcworlte, I haueonly afterwards where l iudged it moi’: need full inlilled vpon it : Baubimu his Pi- mx may fnpply what you in this kindeﬁnde wanting.In-many places of this worke you {hall ﬁndé large difcourfes and fometitnes cnntrouerfies handled by our Author in the namcsg chefc are for the m'of’t part out of Doa’omem,8t fome of them were fo abbreuiated, and by that meanes confounded,that I thought it not worth. my paines to mend them,fo

3 h§§1_¢”pttt‘thcm out in fome few places,and referred you to the places in Dodomm our of

which

To the ‘Reader.; 1

which they were,taken,a‘s in the chapter of Alehoofeiit may be they are not fo perfect as they fhould be in fome very few other places, (for I could not compare all) but if you fufpeét any fuch thing,haue recourfe I0 that Allthonand you fhall ﬁnd fuIII3CiSf3&IOUe' e :Now come I to the Temper and V-ettues. Thefecommonly were taken forth of the fore-‘mentioned Author, and here and there out of Loétlr Obferuations, ond Camerarim his Hartw medians.» To thefe he alfo added fome fe-wvreceipts of his owne : thefel haue notaleteredxbut. here and there {hewed to which theydid mofi properly belong 5 as alfo iflfonlnd them otherwife than they ought, I noted it 5 or ifin vnﬁt places, Ihaue tranﬂ ferredthem to the right plaee,and in diners things whereof our Authorhath been ﬁlent, I haue fupplied that defect _l V r . ,

I _ For-‘my additions I will here fay nothing,but referyou to the immediate infuirig C a- taloguewhich willinforme you only what is added in ﬁgure, or defcription,or in both ,~ by which _, and thel}: two formerly mentioned markes, yotrmay fee what is much altered or added in therworke-jfor this rnarke ’fput.(:ithcr to_figure,or before any Claufe,fhews it to haue bin other-wife put before,-or that claufe whether it be in defcription,Place,'I‘ime, Names,or Vertues to be much altered. -This other-marke it put to a ﬁgure fhewes it not to haue been formerly in the worke,but now added 5 and put in any other place it fhewes all is added vntill you come to another of the fame marl<s.But becaufe it is fometimes o— mitted, I will therefore giue notice in the Errata where it fhould be put, in thofe places‘ wherel obferue either the formeror later of them to be wantin . e

‘ Further,I mull acquaint you how there were the defcriptions of a few plants here and there put in vnﬁtting places,which made me defcribe them as new added,as S'axiﬁaga ma- 707,_<JV{4tt}Jiolz‘,Perﬁcarz'd ﬁlzqzwﬁz, of which in the chapter of Pcrﬁcma there was an ill den‘ f0r1ption,but a reafonable good one in the chapter of A_/imztia mgra.Pap4utrfpmoﬁ4mrwaS ﬁgured and defcribed amongf’t the Cardui 5 now all thefe(as I faid)l added as new in the molt ﬁtting places : yet found them afterwards defcribed, but put them out all,except the lait,whofe hiﬁory I {till retained, with a reference to the preceding ﬁgure and Hi- ﬂorie. Note alfo,wherefoeuer my Author formerly mentioned Cluﬁm, according to his Spanifh or Pannonicke Obferuation‘s,I haue made it,a'cc'ording tothls Hiﬂorie, Which containes them‘ both with additions.

Alfo I mult certiﬁe you,becanfe I know it is a thing that fotne will thinke Iltange,» that the number of the pages in this booke do no more exceedthat of the formier(conli— dering. there is fuch a large accelfion of matter and ﬁgures)the caufe hereof is, each page containes diners lines more than the former,the lines themfelues alfo being longer 5 and by the omiﬁion of defcriptions and ﬁgures put twiceor thrice ouer,an'd the Kinds,vnne— ceifarily put in fome places, I gained as much as conueniently I coukhbeing d‘?ﬁ‘°“‘5' that it might be bound together in one volume.“ ..

Thus haue I fhewed what I haue performed in this Worlkégentreating you to take this’ my Labor in good part ; and if there be any defeét therein(as needs there muﬂ in all hu- mane works) afcribc it in part to my haﬁe and many bu'fineII'es, and in fome laces to the Wjalltof fufficient information, efpecially in Exoticke things ; and in otherfome, to the .1: ttle conuerfation I formerly had with’ this Author, before -fulch time as (ouercome by the imporrunitieof fome friends, and the generallwant of fuch a VVorke)‘I tooke this taske vpon me. Furthermore ldefire,that none would ralhly eenfure me for that which I haue here dOne;but they that know in what time Ididl it,and who themfelues are able to‘ (‘O as much as l haue here performed ; for to fuch alone I {hall giue free liberty, and will

e as ready to yeeld further latisfaétion if they defire it,concerning any thing I haue hﬁre alfcrted, as I {hall be apt tonegleét‘ and fcorne the cenfure of the Ignorant and Vn-

lealned. who I know are (iill forward to vcriﬁe our Englilh prouerbe *‘ I mull not in {i l I

Ifilgcmengwhcreby Itnightbe the better enabled to nerforme this Taske. In the ﬁll}: Eff; 5‘ me remember the only Affifrant I had in this \‘/VOfl{ci‘,Wl1ICl'lWaS M‘ [elm Goadycr

and fallle-Durham in Hampfhire, from whom Ireceiuecl many accurate defcriptions,

his 0me other obferuations concerning plants “e) I haue caufed to be fo printed

, You fhall know them -, in the begi tgilt felfe,and at the end his name is i W ‘lngs ‘hail had from him Ovlld fo readily impart th

M’ Georg

3 the which (deﬁrous to giue euervdffml; ,as they may be d-iflinguifhed from the rail = %“d nning is the name ofthe plant in Latin: ID 3 l1ﬂ¢__ nferted 5fo that the Reader, may eaﬁly ﬁnde th0f<3 ,and I hope together with me will be thankfull to h1m,that hﬂ em for the further increafeof this knowledge.

‘thus

_ Ue Bowler of ChifI'elhur{’t' in Kent mull not here be forgot, for by his trauells‘ Ind - * . ,

ufiry Ihaue had knowledg—~ofdiuers plants,which "were not thought nor formerly H II ﬁl 3;

lsnowne"

‘pr fairies" bait: lence paffe ouer thofe from whom I haue receiued any fauour or incou— z;rl<'m¢f770'~.