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INTRODUCTION TO BOTANV. 23
pur thanks, particularly those who have investigated the
imperfect or cryptogamous plants, as Micheli, the liverworts
and fungi ; Persoon, Link, and Esenbeck, the fungi ;
Dillenius and Hedwig, the mosses ; Geertner, the fruit of
plants. Of living British authors I purposely abstain from
any mention, or I would bestow the proper meed of praise
upon R. Brown, R. A. Salisbury, Goodenough, Dillwyn,
Turner, and many other successful investigators of nature.
Having thus brought the history of botany to the present
time, the following chronological epitome will exhibit
a clear view of its progress since the invention of printing,
and also a succinct list of the principal authors, and particularly
of those relative to English Botany, or the estabUshment
of the natural system, in the order of their
publication.
Edward IV.
1468. Pliny first printed.
1471. Crescentius. Opus ruralium Commodorum. First
dated edition.
1475. Buch der Natur printed. First wood-cuts of natural
history.
1477. ^milius Macer. DeVirtutibusHerbarum. Printed,
1478. Dioscorides translated and printed.
1483. Theophrastus translated and printed.
Edav.V. and Rich. III.
1484. Herbarium, published at Mentz,
Henry VII.
1485. Printing introduced into England by Caxton.
Cuba? Ortus Sanitatis.
Henry VIIL
1516. Great Herbal. Latin names alphabetical. The Jirst
English herlal.
1528. Lucius Apulejus. DeVirtutibusHerbarum. Printed
with Galen's works.
1530. Brunsfels. Herbarium. Restores practical Botany in
Europe.
1534. Judge Fitzherbert. Husbandry.
J 535. Valerius Cordus. Dispensatorium. First piiarma-^
copceia.
1541. Gesner. Historia Plantarum. Proposes genera hy
the fructification.