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INTRODUCTION TO BOTANY. 17
the hands of Gerarde, they were transposed from Dodonseus's
arrangement of his subject into that of Lobell, and
published by Gerarde without any acknowledgement of
Dr. Priest's labour in the translation; indeed he speaks
in his Preface of Dr. Priest's translation as having perished,
although both Lobell and Johnson affirm that he used it
himself with no other alteration than the above-mentioned
change of order in disposing the chapters, and some additions.
For the embellishment of the work, the publisher
procured from the Continent the wood-blocks that had
been used in the pi'inting of Dodonscus, Lobell, and Clusius.
Lobell was extremely angry at Gerarde having adopted
his method, at which we may be surprised, since it undoubtedly
may be considered at this time of day as an
acknowledgement of his superiority over the order, if order
it can be called, of DodouEeus; perhaps the real cause
of Lobell's anger was, that Gerai'de's work being in
English, had a preferable sale to that of his own works in
Latin, and might thus injure his purse, however the complaisance
of Gerarde might flatter his self-love.
The reign of James the First seems not to have been
favourable to botanical studies, as no works of any consequence
were published in his reign in England ; but Basil
Besler, an apothecary at Norimberg, published the Hortus
Eystettensis, or account of the plants in the bishop's
garden there, with 1083 figures on copper, digested according
to the order of their flowering ; a superb work for
the time. And in 1623 Caspar Bauhin, professor of anatomy
and medicine at Basil, published his invaluable Pinax,
the labour of forty years, in which he collected the various
names which all the preceding authors had given to the
thenknow'n plants; so that this work has ever since formed
a repertory, by which, on knowing the name, that any
one old author has given to a plant, we are enabled, without
any trouble, to discover it in the works of other writers
and this book is of course indispensable in a botanical library
of any extent.
Two authors distinguish the unfortunate reign of the
first Charles, namely, Johnson and Parkinson. Johnson
was a physician, but, during the civil wars, he became a
lieutenant-colonel on the king's side, and died of the
wounds he received in a sally from Basing-house. His
first botanical publication was the " Iter Cantianum, or a
Journey into Kent in Search of Plants." Then followed
his Hst of the plants growing upon Hampstead Heath,
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