462 PRINCIPLES OF BOTANY, ETC. 
George Franz. Hoffmann, born in Bavaria, was 
Professor at Erlangen, but went 1792 to Goettingen, 
as Professor of Botany. He has, by descriptions 
and drawings, pretty well explained some extensive 
not yet properly fixed genera* | 
Anton. Joseph Cavanilles, born at Valencia ; ; an 
abbé who lived with the Spanish ambassador at 
Paris, but now resides at Madrid, and. has several 
times travelled through Spain. He has deserved 
well of botanists, by having described and accu- 
rately discriminated the Monodelphiae. He intends 
now, in a particular work, to describe the plants in 
the botanical garden at Madrid, and some new plants 
of Spainy. 
has promised an accurate description of the genus Solanum, 
and to publish Dombey’s flora Peruviana. 
* Georgii Francisci Hoffmanni Enumeratio Lichenum. 
Fasc. I---IV. Erlangae. 1784. 4to. with many plates. It 
1S a pity it is not continued. 
Ejusd. Historia Salicum. Tom. I. Lips. 1785. fol. with 
24 plates. ‘This work is not finished, though it is much to be 
wished that the author may continue it. 
Ejusd. Plantae Lichenosae. Tom. I---III. Lipsiae. 1790--- . 
1796. fol. Each volume has 24 elegantly coloured plates, 
and it is to be continued. This work is very useful to the 
botanist, only the generic names are not very accurate. 
{+ Ant. Joseph Cavanilles Monadelphiae Classis Disserta- 
tiones decem. Matriti. 1790. 4to. with 296 elegant plates. 
Ejusd. Icones plantarum. Vol. I---III. Matriti. 1791--- 
1794. fol. Each volume contains 100 uncoloured plates, 
neatly engraved; with the 4th volume the whole will be con- 
cluded. It contains a great treasure of New Mexican and Spa- 
nish plants. 
3 | ~. Johann, 
