432 PRINCIPLES OF BOTANY, ETC. 
however, his place before going abroad, and at his 
return lived as a private gentleman. Ray died a 
member of the Royal Society in London, Janu- 
ary 17, 1705. He lived most part of his life in 
the country. The figure of the flower on which 
Tournefort founded his system, did not meet witli 
his approbation, and a dispute on that account began 
between the two philosophers. He is the author of 
many works on botany, of which we shall only name 
afew*. He followed Jung in some parts, though 
not throughout. Ray was one of the most assiduous 
botanists, and likewise one of the most learned. 
Johann. Sigismund Elsholz, born at Berlin, 1623, 
was physician to the elector Frederic William, and 
died June 19, 1688. He was the first author who 
wrote on the plants of the Marc Brandenburgt. 
Paul Bocco, called afterwards Sylvius, was born 
at Palermo, 24th April, 1633, and died December 
22, 1704. He was a Cistercian friar. and travelled 
a ereat deal through Italy. He has written several 
small treatises on single plants, but communicated 
the most remarkable and scarcest in the following 
works {. 
| R obert 
¥ Catalogus plantarum, circa Cantabrigiam nascentium. Cam- 
brigae. 1660. 8vo. This was the first work of Ray it was 
published anonymously. Joan. Raji Historia plantarum ge- 
Heralis. wiuCnaio, webars TOGO. LU TOS 6. willon mln. nosy 
fol. ‘The most important, and the last work he wrote. 
{+ Joannis Sipismuridi DLlsholzii Flora marchica. Berol. 
1663. SVvO. 
t Pauli Boccd icornes et descriptiones rariorum plantarum 
Biciliaes 
