428 PRINCIPLES OF BOTANY, ETC. 
part of Switzerland and Italy. Whena youth, he 
commenced his great work*, which he only finished. 
52 years atter. | 
Fabius Columna or Colonna, an Italian, was born 
1567, and was president of the academy at Naples; 
died 1648. He studied chiefly the older botanists. 
In his writings— he has strictly followed the an- 
cients, without the least systematic arrangement. 
Of all works on botany his have the best plates, 
It is only pity that he represents all plants of the 
same size, whether they are large or small. He 
made the drawings for the plates himself. 
* Johannis Bauhini Historia plantarum. Tom. J. II. III. 
Genevae. 1661. fol. with 3600 cuts. This work was pub- 
lished after his death, at the expence of Mr De Grafried, by 
Chabraeus. 
+ Fabiit Columnae @uroBaceves sive plantarum aliquot his- 
toria, in qua describuntur diversi generis plantae veriores, ac 
magis facie viribus respondentes antiquorum, Theophrasti, Dio- 
scoridis, Plinii aliorumque, delineationibus ab aliis hucusque 
non animadversae. Neapel. 1591. with 36 plates. There is a 
later edition at Florence, published 1744, with 38 plates, 
which is not by far so scarce as the former. . 
Ejusd. minus cognitarum nostro coeruleo orientium stirpium 
expeacis. ‘Lom. I, I]. Romae. 1606. 4to. Another edition 
appeared 1616, with 131 plates, which represent 24% plants. 
This book is very rare. ‘The shop price is about 8s. but I 
know it has been sold for 41. ‘The new edition has better 
plates, and besides a treatise de Purpura, wanting in the first. 
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