His De historia stirpium comment a rii insignes (Basel, 1542) con- 
tains 500 excellent outline illustrations of plants of the Rhine 
region. New Kreuterbuch (1543). The genus Fuchsia was named 
in his honor. 
Andrea Cesalpini 
( b . Arezzo, Italy, June 6, 1519. d. Rome, February 23, 1603). 
Pupil of Ghini. Professor at the University of Pisa, Physician to 
Pope Clement VIII. He emphasized the importance of the fruit 
in classification, and his work De plantis libris XVI (1583;, 
marks the beginning of modern systematic botany. First to 
point out the anatomical distinction between root and stem. 
Called by Linnaeus “the first of systematists.’’ His writings 
gave direction to morphological and systematic botany through- 
out the seventeenth and part of the eighteenth centuries. 
Lobelius (Mathias de l’Obel) 
( b . Lille, France, 1538. d. Highgate, England, March 2, 1616) . 
Physician to William the Silent, and, later, Botanist to James I, 
of England. In his Stirpium adversaria -nova (1570) he separated 
plants having netted veined from those having parallel veined 
leaves, thus roughly separating the Monocotyledons from the 
Dicotyledons. The genus Lobelia w r as named in his honor by 
Plumier. 
SEVENTEENTH CENTURY 
Gaspard Bauhin 
(b. Basel, Switzerland, January 17, 1560. 
d. Basel, December 5, 1624). 
Professor in Basel. Botanized in France, Switzerland and Italy. 
Author of the famous Pinax theatri boianici (1623), describing 
6,000 species of plants and clearly distinguishing between specits 
and genera. He gave concise diagnostic descriptions of species 
and was one of the first to recognize natural affinity as the basis 
of a system of classification. “The Linnaeus of the Sixteenth 
Century.” 
John Tradescant Senior 
(/>. Holland, d. Lambeth, England, August, 1638). 
Traveller and collector of natural history objects. Gardener to 
King Charles I. The genus Tradescantia was named in his honor. 
John Tradescant Junior 
( b . Meopham, Kent, England, 1608. 
d. Lambeth, April 22, 1662). 
Succeeded his father as royal gardener. He visited Virginia, 
enriching his father’s collections, which finally w'ent, “twelve 
cartloads of curiosities”, to the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. 
Author of Museum Tradescantianum: or, a Collection of -tareties. 
Preserved at South Lambeth neer London by John Tradescant. (1656) . 
Marcello Malpighi 
(b. Crevalcuore, near Bologna, Italy, May 10, 1628. 
d. Rome, November 29, 1694) . 
Professor in Bologna (1656), Pisa, Messina, and again in Bologna. 
Physician to Pope Innocent XII (1691). Co-founder, with Giew T , 
of the science of plant anatomy ( 1694) . First to observe and 
figure stomata. Anatomes p/a?itarum idea (1671). His Anatome 
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