446 PRINCIPLES OF BOTANY, ETC. 
Wittenberg. The great Friedrich Hoffmann in Halle, 
recommended him to Count Alexander Romanzof, 
whowentas ambassador to Constantinople. He visited 
many parts of Greece, and returned to Petersburg. 
This he left ina bad state of health, and died July 
17, 1730, at Wermsdorf near Mersebure*. 
Peter Antony Micheli, a poor gardener, was born 
-1679.; he was in his last years inspector of the bo- 
tanical garden at Florence, and died January 1, 1736. 
None of his predecessors dissected flowers so mi- 
nutely. He first observed the true flower of mosses, © 
though he did not distinguish accurately the dif- 
ferent parts of it. Micheli was likewise the first 
who discovered the fruit of fungi J. 
Ejusdem ‘Hortus Elthamensis.. Londin. 1732. fol. with 324 
good plates, which represent 417 plants.  Vhis has again been 
published without text, under the title, Horti Elthamensis 
icones et nomina. Leyden. 1774. fol. with Linnean names. 
Ej. Historia Muscorum. Cxon. 1741. 4to. with 85 plates, 
which represent about 600 mosses; an mcomparable work. 
In this department of botany nothing almost had been done, 
and in his work it has been first fully treated of. It is very 
scarce, for there were scarcely 250 copies printed. A sepa- 
sate reprint of the plates enpeared in London. 1763. 
* J. C. Buxbaumi Flentarum minus cognitarum Cent V. 
Petropol. 1728. 4to. The last Centuries were published by 
Gmelin, the sixth never appeared. He gives many figures of 
African plants which he found in the East. — 
+ P. A. Michelii nova plantarum genera. Florent. 1729. 
Ato. with 108 very neat plates. It is a pity that the second 
part of this excellent work has been lost. 
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