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Gerard(1597) p. 999 Of Sea Hollie - Enyorgium marginum mediterraneum
English Sea Hollie. Centum capita
High Dutch - Menstrew Radendistel
Fuchs(1542) p. 297 Eryngium Manstrew Centumcapita
Brachendistel, Raddistel.
The eating of the roots as an aphrodisise or 'restoratice' seems to
have been very popular during the 16th C.
p. 246 E.L. Greene - As to phytography, therefore, the Brunfelsian volumes
are a Treasury of select quotations from a long line of books,
many of which are how seldom seen. But there are no
new descriptions in his Volumes; and it way be doulsted
whether upon the whole he directly advanced the art of
plant description by a syllable.
Weiditz was a near contemporary of Durer + almost certainly his pupil.
Nissen - Brunfel's German herbal is more than a mere translation
of the Herbarum vivae eicones (3 pts 1530-31-36). While in
the altter, the herbs are described without any systematic order
but appear in the sequence in which the illustraton supplied
them, many plants have been recorded in the German work
without corresponding illustration in order to offer a general
surcey of the German flora.