434 PRINCIPLES OF BOTANY, ETC. 
tanicus, whichwas to contain all knownplants. While 
ona journey through Italy he became affected with 
asthma, which caused his death at Paris, Sept. 17, 
1673. The plates have been published since his 
death*. 
‘Franciscus van Sterrebeck was a clergyman at 
Antwerp, and died in 1684. Before him little at- 
tention had been paid to fungi. He took many from 
Clusius, added a great number of new ones, and 
wrote a particular work on themy. But his figures 
are very bad, as he has entirely neglected the true 
characteristic marks of fungi, and indeed seems to 
have given many fictitious representations. 
Jacob. Breynius, merchant, and member of seve- 
ral societies, was born at Danzig, 1637, and died of 
a dysentery, 1697. He corresponded with the first 
botanists of his age, and got from them many rare 
plants, which he described in several separate 
works}. 
Heinrick 
* Jacob Barrelieri Plantae per Hispaniam et Italiam obser- 
vatae; opus posthumum accurante Antonio de Jussieu. P- 
rislis. 1714. fol. with 1327 plates, representing 1455 plants. 
The last plates contain many figures of zoophytes, and of 40 
shells. Several of the figures are taken from Clusius and 
others. 
} Francisci Sterrebeck Theatrum fungorum, oft het Tooneel 
der Campernoellen, &c. Antwerpiae. 1654. 4to. At the 
samé place three other editions appeared of 1675, 1685, and 
1712. 
t Jacobi Breynit Exoticarum et minus cognitarum stirpium. 
Centuria I, Gedani. 1678. fol. Published at the author’s. 
expence. The 109 plates aecompanying it are very neat. 
Ejusd. 
