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    Mathias de l'Obel, Mathias de Lobel or Matthaeus Lobelius (1538 – 3 March 1616) was a Flemish physician and plant enthusiast who was born in Lille, Flanders...
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    an illustrated botanical text by the Flemish physician Lobelius (Matthias de l'Obel (1538–1616) and published in Antwerp in 1576. Later, he translated...
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    the Elder, Conrad Gessner, Rembert Dodoens, Carolus Clusius, and Matthias de l'Obel. The genus name is a compound of the Greek elements κερί / κηρός (=...
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    name "narcissus" for the plant but was preceded by others such as Matthias de l'Obel (1591) and Clusius (1576). The name Narcissus was not uncommon for...
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    Turner called it "Cynosbatos : wild hep or brere tree". Yet in 1551, Matthias de l'Obel classified it as a rose, under the name, "Canina Rosa odorata et silvestris"...
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    and what medicinal uses they had. Only when European botanists like Matthias de l'Obel, Andrea Cesalpino and Augustus Quirinus Rivinus (Bachmann) had done...
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    of Boece's Historia Gentis Scotorum, as the Croniklis of Scotland, Matthias de l'Obel published Plantarum seu stirpium historia. (to left, above) In this...
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  • daisy, Livingstone, Zambia. Ignacio de la Llave, Mexican general and governor. – Veracruz-Llave Matthias de l'Obel (sometimes spelled as Lobel), Flemish...
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  • 1609, Rumler married Anna de l'Obel from Middelburg, Zeeland, a daughter of the Flemish physician and botanist Matthias de l'Obel, in the Huguenot French...
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    John Gerard (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    living and working in London, and a neighbour of the Flemish botanist Matthias de l'Obel (also known as Lobelius). Many of these had fine gardens and would...
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