The Classes or Tribes contained in this Worke, are these:

  • 1 Plantae Odoratae. Sweete smelling Plants.
  • 2 Catharticae sive Purgantes. Purging Plants.
  • 3 Venenosae, Narcoticae, Nocivae & Alexipharmacae. Venemous, Sleepy, and Hurtfull Plants, and their Counterpoysons.
  • 4 Saxifrage Plantae, Nephriticae sive Calculum frangentes. Saxifrages, or Breakestone Plants.
  • 5 Plantae Vulnerariae & Ferruminantes, id est, Consolidantes. Vulnerary or Wound Herbes.
  • 6 Plantae Refrigerantes & Intubaceae. Cooling and Succory-like Herbes.
  • 7 Plantae Calidae & Acres. Hot and sharpe biting Plants.
  • 8 Vmbelliferae. Vmbelliferous Plants.
  • 9 Cardui & Spinosae Plantae. Thistles and Thorny Plants.
  • 10 Filices & Herbae Capillares. Fearnes and Capillary Herbes.
  • 11 Legumina. Pulses.
  • 12 Cerealia. Cornes.
  • 13 Gramina, Iunci & Arundines. Grasses, Rushes and Reedes.
  • 14. Plantae Paludosae Aquaticae & Marinae, Musci & Fungi. Marsh, Water and Sea Plants, and Mosses, and Mushromes.
  • 15 Miscelanea. The Vnordered Tribe.
  • 16 Arbores & Frutices. Trees and Shrubbes.
  • 17 Exoticae & Peregrinae Plantae. Strange and Outlandish Plants.
  • Theatro Botanico Appendix. An Appendix to the Theater of Plants.

Theatrum botanicum was written by John Parkinson in 1640.