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M. Isengrim - 1531-1559 803-4 De Tevtlo Cap CCCX Mengolt Beta Candida
XX 3-797-98 - De Teli Cap CCCVII Boctshorn Foenograecum (telis - the herb ferugreek)
XX4 p 799 - De Telephio Cap CCCVIII
p 800 - woodcut - Telephium album. (telephria - an unidentif plant)
they have the Latin + German names in Type with teh block
Fuchs described 400 German + 100 fouiga plants +
[margin] printing + the Mind of Man [end margin] illustrated them in 512 superb woodcuts. In the text
the plants are arranged in alphabetical order; there is no
classification, no plant geography, nothing about their relation
with other living things.
The fuchsia when it was brought form America was
named after him. Fuchs (Fox) Latinized form of his
name - Fuchsina.
Gerard (T. Johann) 1633 p.520 -Chapt. 146 of Orpyre (Wundkraut)
1) Spanish Orpyne
2) Common Orpyne (crassula sive fabu inuersa)
Chapt. 147 of the smaller Orpyna
1) Telephium floribus purpureis
the orpyre with purple flowers is lower + lesser than the common.
Growere not in England.
"Discorides saith that being laid on with Vineger it taketh
away the white morpheu. Galen saith thte black also, which
thing it doth by reason of the scourging or cleaning gualitic
taht it hath. Where upon Galen attributes unto it an hot
facultic, through the taste showeth the contrarie, which aforesaid
scouring faculties declareth, that hte other two also be likewise
cold. But cold things may as well cleanse, if drinesse of
temperature + thinnesse of essence ioyed Together in them."
C. Nissan De historia Stiupium, 1542. (5a - 20 14 B). 896 S. 4 Port. u 512
Holzsehn.
Fuchs gave us 40 plants never before figuted and initiated teh
history of some American plants, among which was maize,
though Fuschs thought it came from Turkey.
New world plants depiced for 1st time - corn, pumpkin, chili pepper
+ srap bean. A number of plant names coined by Fuchs, for example,
digitalis were accepted by Linneus + are still in current usage.

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