VI RATIO OPERIS. 



II. Cbara^cres hos (lo.) dum Aiidorcs cvolvo, 

 rcpcrio nullos certos & ftxo^ anre Tottrnefortium , 

 ut Ipfi non immcrito inventionis gloriara circa genc- 

 ra concedere debcam ; Dcdere & alii Syflematici a-, 

 liarum Sedatum, cgo tamen nuUos intclligo practer 

 Ejus, eorumqucqui ejus veftigia prellcrunt, \xx\Tlu- 

 mierus , Tetitus , Boerhaavius , Vaillantiiis, T>il' 

 Cenius,Rupfms,'Pontcdera, Buxbaumius , Mi- 

 chelius Sc pauci Alii ; quorum quidcra plures, quam- 

 vis a Claflibus & Ordinibus feu raerhQdo Tourncfor- 

 tiana reccfferint, in Generibus tamcn ejus allecl^ 

 fiicre. AiTumrit Tournefortius Tetala & Fru^um 



ro notis generum diagnoflicis , nec partes 



j.^ 



ob 



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& easdem cjus aiTccIas ferc omnes ; ac Re 



uperque dctcdlo 

 rum gencrum, has partcs folas pro generibus omni 

 bus dillingucndis non llifiiccre intcll 

 ad habiciim, faciemque plantarum ; folia puta , fitu„. 

 floris, caulem, radicem &c. confugere lefe coados 

 crcdiderunt, idell, rccelTcre a tundaracnto frudifi- 

 cationis(7), & ad priorem barbariem dcfccnderunt. 

 Qiiod quara malo omine fadum, facile clTct demon- 

 flratu , fi locus & tcmpus hasc in prazfcnti noii pro- 

 hibcrent. Quidquid demum fit.tamcn agnofcani par- 

 tcs non fufficienres cfTe, a Tournefortio defcriptas , 

 ur n iola perala & frud:us vota hic fcranc,"&: cgo o- 

 iime frudificationis myfterium ncgarcm, rcfpucrcm^ 

 ue, Scd qua^fo , qua; docuir unquam ratio, quod a 

 lolis hifce Nora: fint pctcnda:? quce docuit unquam 



pfia? qH3£ rcvclatio? qua; a priori vcl pollcriori 



kfumta argumenra ? iaue nulla , nifi nuda auaoriras; 



Auaoritatem agnolcimus' nullam nifianropfiam folam 



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Reheit>aria; nonne nobis patcnt longc pl 



frucl 



