424 PRINCIPLES OF BOTANY, ETC, 
his life at Lyons, and died there 1588, or according 
to some 1597. He was the first who intended to 
write a general history of all known plants, but by 
other occupations he was prevented from continuing 
it. An accomplished physician at Lyons, of the 
name of John Molinaeus, completed it at the desire 
of the bookseller Rovilli *. 
Joachim Camerarius was born at Nuernberg, the 
6th of November, 1534, and died October 11, 
1598. He lived with Melanchthon at Wittenberg, 
when a boy, and afterwards studied medicine at 
Leipzig. He then travelled over Italy, and gra- 
duated 1551 at Rome. He was intimately acquaint- 
ed with the greatest botanists of his age. By his 
great zeal for botany, he became noticed by Prince 
William, Landgrave of Hesse, who was very fond of 
sardening, and whose garden in Cassel he undertook 
to arrange. His nephew, Joachim Jungermann, a 
young but excellent botanist, went, by his desite, 
to the East, but had the misfortune during his 
gravels to die of an infectious disease. Camerarius 
wrote several treatises on economical botany, and 
on the plants of the ancients. His principal work f 
| contains 
* Jacob Dalechampii Historia generalis plantarum, opus 
posthumum. Leyden 1987. Vol. I. II, fol. 2686 cuts ; these 
contain most of the figures af Cordus, Fuchsius, Clusius, 
‘Tragus, Matthiolus, Dodonaeus, and Lobel. More than 400 
are two or three times repeated, and the few original ones are 
exceedingly bad. \ 
+ Joachim Camerarii hortus medicus philosophicus. Francf. 
ad Pe 1588, 4to. A small treatise of Joannes Thal, a 
ei physician 
