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(2) Hortus Eegius Blesensis. p. 300. Morison. A.D. 1669. 
(4) Eay. Historia Plantarum. p. 746. A.D. 1686 or 1688. 
(5) La MeridienDO de T Observatoire Eoyal de Paris. &c. 
Par M. Cassini Thury de P Academie Eoyal des Sciences. 
Avec des Observations d’ Histoire Naturelle, faites dans les 
Provinces traversees par la Meridienne par M. le Monnier 
de la meme Academie Docteur en Medecine. 4to. Paris. 1744. 
A short account is subjoined of three botanists’, eminent 
in their day, who have been alluded to by Hudson in his 
description of the Lobelia. 
Boccone Paul Silvius. He was born of a noble family at 
Palermo in 1633, where he died in 1704. He published a 
small number of works, and has left others in manuscript. 
He had in his youth a passion for the study of natural 
history in general, and of botany in particular. He 
travelled through the different countries of Europe to satisfy 
this taste. In Paris he made the acquaintance of the Abbe 
Bourdelot. In 1674, he published at Amsterdam his 
“ Eesearches and Observations on Natural History.” ^ 
There are in this little work some very curious matters. 
Having connected himself while in London with Hatton, 
Sherard, and Morison, the last named induced him to publish 
a work on the plants which he had observed, and took 
charge of its revision and printing. This work appeared at 
Oxford under the title of “Drawings and Descriptions of 
the Earer Plants of Sicily, Malta, Prance, and Italy,” in 
1674, 4to. with 52 plates. He published afterwards at 
Venice by the advice of Sherard, another work more 
extensive, under the title, “ A museum of the Eare Plants 
of Sicily, &c,” f Eight other works are named. He was 
appointed Botanist to the great Duke of Tuscany, but in 
1682 became a monk under the name of Sylvius. J 
Bauhin, Gaspard. In Basle, famed for its learned 
University, was the subject of this article born and educated. 
After finishing his college education, he visited several parts 
of Europe that he might gain an insight into its vegetable 
productions, which in those days were so important a con- 
stituent of medicine. On his return to his native town, he 
* Eecherclies et Observations d’Historie natnrelle. 
t Museo di plante rare della Sicilia, &c. Venice, 1697, 
J See Biographie tlniverselle. Paris, 1811, 
