146 SOME OF WORLD'S BOTANISTS. 



LoBEL, or l'Obel, Matthias, born near Lille, 

 1538; died near London, 1616. Emigrated to Eng- 

 land, where he became botanist to James I and had 

 charge of a garden of medicinal plants. Author of 

 some bontanical works. 



Lobelia is named for him. 



Martyn, John. Bom in London, England, Sep- 

 tember 12, 1699; died at Chelsea, January 29, 1768. 

 Author of "Historia plantarum variorum ;" Professor 

 of Botany at Cambridge. 



Martynia Louisiana, Unicorn-Plant, or Double- 

 Claw, is named in his honor. 



MiCHAUx, I., Andre, a French botanist, bom at 

 Versailles, March 7, 1746, died in Madagascar, No- 

 vember 13, 1802. He was a pupil of Bernard de Jus- 

 sieu in the Jardin des Plantes, and associated with 

 Lamarck and Thouin in their botanical expeditions. 

 He traveled in the Pyrenees, and subsequently in 

 Persia, where he remained two years making botan- 

 ical collections and studies. In 1785 he was commis- 

 sioned by the French Government to make a journey 

 through North America, and he established botanic 

 gardens near Charleston and New York City. He 

 sent home great quantities of plants, trees, and seeds. 

 A plantation to which he had contributed 60,000 

 young trees was destroyed during the French Revolu- 

 tion. On returning to France, 1796, he was ship- 

 wrecked and most of his collections were lost. In 1800 

 he joined an expedition to Australia, but left it at the 

 Isle of France and went to Madagascar, where he died. 

 Two works, "A History of the Oaks of North Amer- 



