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her trenchant comments to check my own speculations. Since Dr Collins' methodology encourages precision and an exchange of information, I append a few corrections and suggestions. In general, her Latin is weak, and her quotations and, since her acquaintance with medieval Latin abbreviations appears limited, her transcriptions need checking. Often the plant name as given in the caption does not correspond to that on the plate. The author of the first major study of the Juliana Anicia codex in Vienna was not, as the unwise might suppose from her misunderstanding of the Latin, a Frenchman called De Premerstein, but a Germanic Anton Von Premerstein. A S Atiya also becomes Aiya. I missed a discussion of another papyrus herbal, already noticed by Johnson in 1913, that seems to predate by a generation Wellcome 5753. Details of this herbal, from Tebtunis, are most accessible in M H Marganne, Inventaire analytique des papyrus grecs, 1981, nos 176, 178-81. The Kansas City Museum also had on display in the early 1980s a few leaves from an illustrated Arabic herbal of Dioscorides (if my memory is right), from a private collection. The odd shaped palliasses in Laurenziana 73, 41 (fig. 44) have parallels in the Bologna Apollonius, and also in religious paintings of the death of the Virgin. Finally, a set of photographs of the Herten MS of Apuleius, destroyed in the last war, p. 191, still exists in the Welch Library at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.