[10] The name _Kammermeister_ or _Camerarius_ was adopted by Joachim Camerarius the elder, in place of the family name of _Liebhard_. [11] There has been some uncertainty about this date, but Meerbeck (see Appendix II) seems to have proved that 1517 is correct. [12] The fullest and most correct form of his name is probably “Jules-Charles de l’Escluse.” [13] University Library, Leyden, Department of Manuscripts, Codex No. 303. [14] According to Legré, the word “Adversaria” is equivalent to “livre-journal,” i.e. day-book in the commercial sense. [15] “quem ego emptum cupivissem, sed me deterruit pretium: nam centum ducatis indicabatur, summa cæsarei non mei marsupii. Ego instare non desinam donec cæsarem impulero ut tam præclarum autorem ex illâ servitute redimat.” _Epist._ IV. p. 392. [Quoted by Kickx, _Bull. Acad. roy. Bruxelles_, Vol. v. p. 202, 1838.] [16] ‘Ekphrasis,’ 1616, pp. 245 etc. [17] πίναξ = a chart or register. [18] The n is inverted in the original, no doubt a misprint. [19] The spelling “Gerarde” on the title-page of ‘The Herball’ is believed to be an error. See ‘A Catalogue of Plants cultivated in the garden of John Gerard,’ edited by B. D. Jackson, London, 1876. [20] Orkney Islands. [21] p. xlv. [22] Hector Boethius, ‘Heir beginnis the hystory and croniklis of Scotland.... Translatit laitly in our vulgar and commoun langage, be maister Johne Bellenden.... And Imprentit in Edinburgh, be me Thomas Davidson’ [1536] (Cap. XIV. of the ‘Cosmographie’). [23] ‘Turner on Birds: ... first published by Doctor William Turner, 1544.’ Edited by A. H. Evans, Cambridge, p. 27, 1903. [The original passage will be found in Avium præcipuarum.... Per Dn. Guilielmum Turnerum, ... Coloniæ excudebat Ioan. Gymnicus, 1544.] [24] Quoted from Dr O. Cockayne’s translation of an Anglo-Saxon manuscript of the eleventh century. See Appendix II. [25] The descriptions here quoted are from the edition of 1529. [26] The expression “yelowe flowre” is an indication of the Continental origin of the Grete Herball. The plant intended is obviously not our British _Oxalis acetosella_ L.; it may possibly be _O. corniculata_ L. [27] _Hypericum androsæmum_ L. [28] Stamen = warp or thread. [29] ‘Minus cognitarum stirpium ... ΕΚΦΡΑΣΙϹ.’ 1616. Pars altera, Cap. XXVII. p. 62 “tam in hac, quam in aliis plantis, non enim ex foliis, sed ex flore, seminisque, conceptaculo, et ipso potius semine, plantarum affinitatem dijudicamus.” [30] “plerisque nomen imposuimus, perspicuitatis gratia, cuius nomine communiter nota aliqua quæ à quolibet in planta observari potest, nomini addita.” [31] “Transit etiam in arborem in quibusdam regionibus Ricinus, alibi annua stirps.” [32] “uti à D. Mathia Lobelio...singulæ videlicet congeneres ac sibi mutuo affines, digestæ sunt.” Dedication to ‘Plantarum seu stirpium icones,’ 1581. [33] Codex Vossianus Latinus in Quarto No. 9.