HISTORY OF BOTANY. 



who published them in 1754 and 1771, under the name of 

 Opera Botanica. 



The plants of the Hartz were published by John Thai, a 

 physician at Nordhausen, who died in 1587, in a work en- 

 titled Sylva Hercynia, at Frankfort, in 1588, in quarto« 

 This publication, after the death of the author, was taken, 

 care of by Joachirn Camerarius. 



A scholar of Tragus, named Jacob Theodore Tabernamon- 

 tanus, a native of Bergzabern, in Alsace, published a work 

 similar to that of his German predecessor, the best edition of 

 which is that published by Hieronymus Bauhin, at Basil, in 

 folio, in 1731. Although this work contains many things 

 copied from other authors, we also find in it a multitude of 

 plants which were not known to his predecessors^ 



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The inhabitants of the Netherlands, who had been incor- 

 porated with the German empire under CharJ^s the Fifth, 

 being urged by the tyranny of his successor, Philip the Se- 

 cond, freed themselves from the Spanish sovereignty, and ob- 

 tained their independence, after an opposition of many yeai's. 

 This bloody struggle promoted the trade and prosperity of the 

 nation. Arts and Sciences were cultivated in the Nether- , 

 lands, with German diligence and zeal, and botany prospered, 

 in proportion to the opportunities that were afforded of ob- 

 taining plants from foreign countries. 



Rembert Dodona;us, a native of West Friesland, an Aus- 

 trian physician, afterwards a professor at Leyden, who died 

 in 1586, was one of the oldest and most distinguished founders 

 of botany. His Stirpium Historiae Pemptades VI. were pub- 

 lished at Antwerp, in an enlarged edition, in folio, in 1616. 



Matthias Lobelius, of Flanders, who was afterwards super- 

 intendant of the garden of Queen Elizabeth of England, and 

 died in 1616, not only discovered a multitude of plants 

 during his travels in France, the Netherlands, England, and 

 Germany: he also made the first attempt to arrange them 

 according to a certain natural affinity. His Stirpium Nova 

 Adversaria, pubhshed at London in 1570 and 1605, in folio. 



