JAMES, a physician, was born at Caen in Normandy, in 1513. He was distinguished for his industry in botany, as well as in other branches of literature. He wrote notes on Pliny's Natural History, and translated Athenaeus into Latin. He added 30 plates of rare plants to the Dioscorides of Ruellius, printed in 1552. After his death appeared his "Historia generalis Plantarum in xviii. libros digefta," Lugd. 1587, two vols folio. In this work, which is said to have been the labour of 30 years, the author proposed to include all the botanical discoveries previous to his own time, as well as those which he had made himself in the vicinity of Lyons and the Alps. He also published editions of Paulus Aegineta and Caius Aurelianus, with notes; a work on surgery, and another De Peste, lib. iii.

He practised physic at Lyons from 1552 to 1558, when he died, aged 75.