Priapeia vel nicotiana (tobacco)
“Detail showing the flowers of the tobacco-plant, from a manuscript compiled under the direction of Leonhart Fuchs (1501-66), professor of medicine at the university of Tübingen. Fuchs was one of the first men to study plants for their own sake, as well as for their medical applications. His De historia stirpium commentarii insignes of 1542 was the second notable printed herbal produced in Germany, supplanting Otto Brunfels’ Herbarum vivae icones (1530-36), even though the illustrations in the older work were of a higher quality. Fuchs labored for the last twenty-four years of his life in the compilation of a much larger botanical encyclopedia, commissioning and collecting hundreds of high-quality illustrations, which included some of the earliest known depictions of such novelties as the tomato and tobacco plants: but this opus never made it to the press.” -source
