Text-fig. 99. “Cyclaminus” [Camerarius, De plantis Epitome ... Matthioli, 1586].
Another school of plant illustration is represented in the work of Gesner and Camerarius. As we mentioned on p. [92], Gesner’s drawings were not published during his life-time, but some of them were eventually produced by Camerarius, with the addition of figures of his own, to illustrate his ‘Epitome Matthioli’ of 1586 (Text-figs. 72 and 99) and also his later work. In 1751, C. J. Trew published a collection of Gesner’s drawings, many of which had never been seen before; but even then, it proved impossible to separate the work of the two botanists with any completeness, since Gesner’s drawings and blocks had passed through the hands of Camerarius, who had incorporated his own with them. A few wood-cuts however, which appeared as an appendix to Simler’s Life of Gesner, are undoubtedly Gesner’s own work. One of these is reproduced in Text-fig. 48.
Text-fig. 100. “Rosa Hierichuntica” = Anastatica hierochuntica L., Rose of Jericho [Camerarius, Hortus medicus, 1588].
Text-fig. 101. “Piper Nigrum” = Pepper [d’Aléchamps Historia generalis plantarum, Vol. II. 1587].