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Caspar Bauhin, the younger brother of the above, edited the 

 complete works of Matthiolus, and contemplated an exhaustive 

 treatise on all known plants, when death ended his labours 

 in 1624. The first part of volume i. of his Theatrum appeared 

 posthumously in 1658 ; his Plnax (1623), which was intended 

 to smooth the way for his larger work, became the universal 

 text-book of botany for something like a century. In this 

 book Bauhin has ranged the synonyms of various authors 

 under his own name for each plant ; Linnaeus quotes the 

 Pinax throughout in his Species plantarum. 



Johnson, the Editor of Gerard's Herhall, is also known 

 as the author of several small works, which have been re- 

 printed in one volume. In these we find the first account 

 of the various plants seen in a small and definite locality, the 

 earliest English local lists in fact. The troublous times of the 

 civil war stopped his prosecution of botany, and he lost his 

 life in the commotion. 



John Parkinson's first publication came out in 1629, the same 

 year as Johnson's ; it is a full list of the choice garden flowers, 

 cultivated for their beauty in his days ; but the completion 

 of his Paradisus terrestris, the Theatrum, did not see the 

 light until eleven years after, chiefly owing to the unsettled 

 state of the kingdom. 



The admirable etchings of Fabio Colonna, latinised into 

 Columna, in his Phytobasanos, and Ecphrasis, deserve especial 

 mention ; no drawing equal to them in merit for demonstrat- 

 ing details appearing afterwards for a long period. He groups 

 his plants naturally, but without setting himself to elaborate 

 a complete system. 



John Tradescant the elder lived many years, and died in 

 England; he travelled in North America, and brought home 

 many plants and trees, of which he published a catalogue; 

 his garden at South Lambeth was of much interest when 

 Dr. Watson and other members of the Royal Society visited 



