50 HISTORY OF BOTANY. 



the cliair of practice of plij^sic, and was made rector of the 

 University and dean of the faculty. Of the several works 

 that he wrote on medicine and Botanj^ the most celebrated 

 is his 'Table of the Theatre of Botany,'* which was 

 published in 1623. It is an index to the works of the 

 earlier botanists, in which are described nearly 6000 plants, 

 with the various names given to them : it was the labour of 

 forty years, and remains until now an invaluable collection 

 of S3^nonyms. Another large work planned by C. Bauhiri 

 he did not live to complete ; it was called ' Botanical 

 Theatre,'! and was to have been a history of all known 

 plants, completed in twelve folio parts : three of these he 

 finished, but one only was published. Plumier named the 

 genus Bauhinia in honour of Caspar Bauhin; or perhaps 

 after the two illustrious brothers, as the twin lobed leaves 

 might suggest. 



Though they may have little direct bearing on botanical 

 nomenclature, we must not omit notice of two English 

 botanists of this time, Johnson and Parkinson. 



Thomas Johnson was born at Selby, in Yorkshire, and 

 was brought up as an apothecary in London, where he kept 

 a shop. In 1629 he published a 'Journey into Kent in 

 Search of Plants," and in 1632 an account of the plants 

 growing on Hampstead Heath, which is the first of our 

 ' Local Floras.' But his most important, or largest work, 

 was a new edition of Gerard's 'Herbal,' published in 1633. 

 Johnson became a soldier during the civil wars, having the 

 rank of lieutenant- colonel on the ro3'alist side, and he died 

 of a gun-shot wound received in a sally from Basinghouse, 

 Hampshire. 



John Parkinson, another apothecar}^, and contemporaiy 

 with Johnson, published in 1629 an account of garden 

 plants. In 1643 appeared his ' Theatre of Botanj^' 



"^ * Pinax Tlieatri Botanici.' f ' Tlieatrum Botanicum.' 



