HISTORY OF BOTANY. 39 



Frankfort in 1551. Lonicer was born 1528, and died 

 1586; the genus Lonicera was named in his honour. 



About the same time, and until the end of the sixteenth 

 century, there were a number of celebrated botanists, who 

 aided m the advancement of the Science. Though they 

 followed for the most part in the footsteps of their pre- 

 decessors, they published some fresh ideas and described 

 some fresh plants, and, though they did not establish an 

 epoch in our history, they introduced improvements in classi- 

 fication, and added greatly to botanical knowledge by the 

 cultivation of physic gardens. We notice the following 

 well-known and frequently quoted authors: — Tragus, 

 Dodonseus, Lobelius, CiEsalpinus, Columna, Camerarius, 

 Prosper Alpinus, Gerard, and Clusius. 



Hieronymus Tragus* was a German botanist of this 

 period. He published in 1532 his 'History of Plants,' 

 arranging them under three classes, founded on their 

 qualities, figure, habit, and size, which plan was followed by 

 most other botanists of about that time. This work was 

 first published in German ; but a Latin edition of it, by 

 David Kyber, was published at Strasburg in 1552, with a 

 preface by Gesner attached. 



Reinbert Dodoens, or in Latin Dodonaeus, a Flemish 

 physician, was born at Mechlin, 1518, and died at Leyden, 

 1585. He published different botanical works, the principal 

 being his ' History of Plants,' a Herbal very similar to others 

 of the same time in most respects, but a fine work and well 

 illustrated ; it appeared complete, with 1305 figures, in 1583. 

 There is also another edition, revised by the author shortly 



^' A Latin travesty of his real name, Jerome Bock, or Bouc, these 

 words signifying " goat," which in Latin is " Tragus," as though 

 " Fuchs" should be called in Latin " Vulpes," instead of " Fuchsius,' 

 or an EngHsliman called "Woodcock" should be latinised into 

 *' Scolopax." 



