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Botanical Illustration 



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Professor Treviranus, whose work on the use of wood- 

 engravings as botanical illustrations is so well known, 

 considered that some of the drawings published by 

 Camerarius in connection with his last work (' Hortus 

 medicus et philosophicus,' 1588) were among the best ever 

 produced. Examples are shown in Text-figs. 34, 35, 71, 



Text-fig. loi. "Piper Nigrum " = Pepper [d'Aldchamps 

 Historia generalis plantarum, Vol. ll. 1587]. 



100. Treviranus pointed out that one of their great merits 

 lay in the selection of good, typical specimens as models. 

 These figures are very much more botanical than those of 

 any previous author ; in fact — as Hatton has pointed out 



