46 CHAPTER 30. 
Nil, Epilobium: S. Christophori,^^:-* 
t^a: 5'. Gerardi, Mgopodiu?n: S, Ru- 
pert i, Geraniwn: S. Jacobi, Seneclo : 
S. Petri, Parietaria, &c. 5cc. John 
Bauhine wrote a treatife, in 159I5 now 
become very fcarce, De Plantis a Divis- 
Sa7i5lijve Nomen habentibus ^ 
The reftorers of botany, in a few in- 
ftances, revived the praftice. Gesner, had 
he lived to fini£h his plan in his Hiftory 
of Plants,'' intended to have perpetuated 
the names of his friends, by monuments of 
this kind. It appears, that he had requefted 
GuiLANDiNUs, John Bauhine, Kent- 
man, Camerarius, and our celebrated 
countryman Dr. Caius, to feied: from his 
new fpecies, fach as they chofe to bear their 
names, or allow to him the privilege of 
adopting what he thought moiL congru- 
ous. By the fame kind of tribute we learn, 
from his letters, that he propofed to record 
the names of his friends Gasserus, Occo, 
Are T I us, and feveral others. 
Matthiolus, hovv^ever, adually re- 
ftored the ufage, by the application of the 
term Cortiija to a new plant, in honour of 
Cortusus, 
