HISTORY OF THE SCIENCE. 4a 
‘ournefort, consider it merely as an execremen- 
titious matter of the flower*. 
Heinrich Bernhard Ruppius, a student at Giessen, 
was born to be a botanist. He travelled through 
the greatest part of Germany on foot, content with 
poor sparing diet, often sleeping in the open air. 
His knowledge of plants was far more than su- 
perficial, and he often even distinguishes plants by 
their stamens, and enumerates many new generat. 
Johann. Jacob Dillenius, born in Hessia, 1684; 
became Professor in his native city, but was soon 
called to Oxford, as Professor, where he died in 
1747. Like Vaillant he could instantly discriminate 
the smallest plants. Dillenius has characterised the 
mosses, and his descriptions stand as a model of per- 
spicuity. He could himself draw and engrave}. 
Johann. Christian Buxbaum wasborn at Merseburg, 
in Saxony, in 1694, and studied at Leipzig, Jena and 
Wittenberg. 
* Sebastiani Vaillant botanicon Parisiense, ou dénombre- 
ment par ordre alphabetique des plantes, qui se trouvent dans 
les environs de Paris. lLeidae. 1727. fol. with very neat 
plates, published by Boerhaave, after the author’s death. | Se. 
veral smaller treatises are to be found in the Memoires de 
J’Academie de Paris. 
+ Henrici Bernhardi Ruppii Flora Jenensis.- Francf. and 
Lips. 1788. 8vo. Haller published a new edition at Jena, 
in 1745. 
ft Joh. Jacob Dillenii Catalogus plantarum sponte cirea 
Giessam nascentium. Giessae. 1719. 8vo. 
Ejusdem, 
