40 HISTORY OF BOTANY. 



before his death ; it was published 1616. DodoeDS departed 

 from the common plan of arranging the plants in alpha- 

 betical order, and attempted the bringing together of those 

 which seemed in some way allied ; and though his groups are 

 sufficiently incongruous, he must be credited with having 

 brought about some improvement in classification. This 

 Herbal of Dodoens was a very popular one in England, as 

 well as abroad, at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning 

 of the seventeenth centmy. A translation of it into English 

 by Henrj' I^yte, came out in 1578. There were dijfferent 

 editions of it, one called 'Ram's Little Dodeon.'* Gerard's 

 ' Herbal ' is also founded on that of Dodoens. 



Matthias Lobelius, or Lobel, or L'Obel, a Fleming, 

 born at Lisle, in 1538, was a ver}^ celebrated botanist*. At 

 the age of sixteen he evinced a great love for j)lants. He 

 studied at Montpellier, and afterwards travelled over the south 

 of France, Switzerland, the T3T0I, and parts of Germany 

 and Italy; then he settled at Antwerp, and afterwards 

 at Delft, practising as a phj^sician. Subsequently he came 

 to England, over which he made many explorations, and 

 added many plants to our Flora; he superintended a physic 

 garden at Hackne}", and became physician to James I. 

 After publishing several learned botanical works, the chief 

 being his ' Notes of Plants,' published first in 1570, he died 

 in London, 1610. 



Andreas Cissalpinus, an Italian naturalist, was born at 

 Arezzo in 1519, and died lOOo. He studied medicine, and 

 took the degree of doctor. The botanical ideas of Cassalpinus 

 were more scientific than any of his time, and their intro- 



■-'- " Eain's Little Dodeon, out of the most exquisite new Herball, or 

 History of Plants, first set forth in the Dutch Tongue by D. Keinbert 

 Dodeon, and translated into English by Henry Lyte, Esquhe, and 

 abridged by Wilhani Ham, Gentleman."' This is from a book cata- 

 logue ; I Jiave not seen it. 



