New Genera of American Plants

...the most successful follower of Dioscorides a famous Greek physician and botanist of the 1st century AD and an explorer of plants not previously known. His father, through his own example, inspired him, wishing him to be raised among the very herbs and flowers from his infancy. He died in Rome in 1544, at the age of 19 this likely refers to the young age at which he achieved fame, though Cordus was actually 29 when he died. He published four books of the History of Plants original: "Historiæ stirpium". They were published in Strasbourg, 1561, in folio format.

TRAGIA

Plate 12.

Tragia named after Hieronymus Bock, known as Tragus; it is a genus in the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae is a genus of plant with a single-petaled original: "monopetalo" flower (A), funnel-shaped, usually divided into three parts, but sterile. For the embryos the developing seeds or ovaries (C) are separated from the flowers on the same plant and later develop into a three-seeded original: "tricoccum" fruit (D), composed specifically of three capsules (E), filled with a spherical seed (F).

The species of Tragia are:
Climbing Tragia with a long Betony leaf.
Another climbing Tragia with a nettle leaf.

Melchior Adam.

Hieronymus Tragus, otherwise known as Hieronymus Bock (in his native tongue "Bock of Heidespach"), was born in Heidespach around the year 1498. He lived in Zweibrücken original: "Biponti" for several years, where he furnished the garden of Duke Ludwig, Count Palatine of the Rhine, with various kinds of plants. From there, moving to Hornbach and later to Saarbrücken, he composed his History of Herbs, in which, divided into three books, he discourses at length on the differences and properties of plants. He died on February 21, 1554, at the age of 56. His work was published in Strasbourg, 1552, in quarto format.

FUCHSIA

Plate 14.

Fuchsia a genus of flowering plants named after Leonhart Fuchs; mostly native to Central and South America is a genus of plant with a single-petaled flower (A), funnel-shaped and many-cleft; its calyx the outer protective layer of the flower (B) later turns into a roundish, soft, fleshy fruit (C), divided into four chambers original: "loculamenta" (D), and filled with roundish seeds (E).

I have recognized only one species of Fuchsia.
Three-leaved Fuchsia with a scarlet flower.

Leonhart Fuchs was born in Wemding, a town in Raetia in the domain of the Dukes of Bavaria, in 1501. Having been declared a Doctor of Medicine, he went to Munich, then to Tübingen, where he taught with great distinction for 35 years. He was a man of tireless labor and a diligent explorer of the plants of Germany. To the great benefit of herbalists, he produced 510 illustrations of these herbs in a larger for—