430 PRINCIPLES OF BOTANY, ETC. 
shew us that he was a preat botanist. He succeeded — 
well in his descriptions of plants, and his figures are 
good. In the work which was to contain all known 
plants, many are wanting. His nomenclature was, 
before Tournefort, generally adopted. 
Basilius Besler, an apothecary at Nuernberg, who 
died 1561, wrote, at the expence of tite bishop of 
Aichstaedt, John Conrad de Gemmingen, a very 
elegant work*. Some however assert, that Besler 
only gave his name, and that the well known Ludwig 
Jungermann, Prof. at Giessen, was the real author. 
Ludwig Jungermann was born Jun. 28, 1572,- at 
Leipzig, died Jun. 26, 1653, at Giessen, as Professor 
of Physic. He was a very excellent botanist. + 
Jacob Cornutius, a physician at Paris, described 
in a peculiar work, the plants which others had dis- 
covered in North America, and some growing in 
Europe in the gardens of Robinus }. 
Johannes Loesel, Professor at Koenigsberg in Prus- 
sia, was born 1607, and died 1650. His Floral, or 
an 
* Basil. Besleri Hortus Eystettensis. Norimb. 1613. Royal 
fol. with 265 very neat plates, which represent 1080 plants. 
+ Lud. Jungermann Catalogus plantarum quae circa Al- 
torficum Noricum proveniunt. Published by Maurit. Hoffmann. 
1615, 4to. : 
Ejusd. Catalogus plantarum horti et agri Altorfiani. Al- 
torf. 1646. 12mo. | : 
Eiusd. Cornucopiae florae Giessensis. ,Giessae. 1623. 4to. 
A be) 
. 
t Jacob Cornuti plantarum canadensium aliarumque his- 
soria. Parisiis, 1635. 4to. Very rare, but now of little use, 
|| Johann Loeselii plantarum rariorum sponte nascentium 
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