INDEX 



Binary specific names Continued. 

 used by Cordus, 307 

 used by Theophrastus, 125 

 Biologic, nomenclature, 190 



sequences of Theophrastus, 100 

 work begun by Aristotle, 131 

 Bipinnate leaves, first mention of, 80 

 Birch flowers noted by Tragus 228 

 Birds, fancied parents of orchids, 237 

 Bistorta, genus, 274 

 Blastoi, Theophrastan term, 81 

 Blitum, Theophrastus on, 95 

 Bock, Jerome, and Otto Brunfels, 171 

 Boerhaave, H., Adanson on, 17 

 Borraginaceae, family, 183, 252 

 Borrago, genus, 183 

 Botanic garden of Aristotle, 56, 97 

 Botanical, names, origin of, 27, 43 

 nomenclature, 189-191 

 principles of Cordus, 295, 297 

 terminology, 23, 26, 29 

 vocabulary of Fuchsius, 197 

 Botanische forschungen des Alexan- 



derzuges, 103 

 Botanists, Linnaeus' classification of, 



52 

 Botanologicon, work of E. Cordus, 



265, 269 



Botany, aims of, 13 

 ancient elementary, 63 

 antedating all books, 43 

 antiquity of, 37 

 beginnings of, 21-24, 43 

 definitions of, 7, 43 

 descriptive, two methods in, 101 

 distinct from plant industry, 7 

 divisions of, by Sprengel, 20 



by Tournefort, 14 

 duty of historian of, 14 

 economic, antedating systematic, 



61 



German fathers of, 10, 165-168 

 historians of, 14-20 

 history of, in general, 9 

 initial book of, 189 

 medical, antedating systematic, 61 

 philosophic history of, 44 

 philosophy of history of, 13-51 

 physiologic, suggested by Varro, 



148 



suggestions of prehistoric, 70 

 terminology of, 23, 26, 29 

 Theophrastan, Bretzl on, 101, 133 

 Box'tree, phytographic leaf type, 103 

 Bracts, mentioned first by Cordus, 



2-84 

 Brandenburg, Margrave of, and 



Fuchs, 193, 196 



Brassica, ancient varieties of, 146 

 Bretzl, H., on Theophrastan phy- 



tography, 101 

 Bromus secalinus, fabled origin of, 



Brown, R., on inflorescence, 92, 282 

 Browne, P., dedicates Catonia, 147 



dedicates Varronia, 149 

 Brunfelsia, genus, 172 

 Brunfelsius, Otho, anthology of, 174 



authors quoted by, 172 



authorship of, other than botani- 

 cal, 172 



career of, Sprengel on, 169 



censured, also commended, by E. 

 Cordus, 268 



commended by Fuchs, 197 



criticised by Fuchs, 174, 176 



disregards priority in names, 190 



genera credited to, by Sprengel, 

 185, 186 



illustrates roots with care, 45 



life of, 169-192 



physician at Berne, 171 



phytography of, 172 



plants first published by, 186, 187 



teacher at Strassburg, 169-171 



visits Tragus at Hornbach, 171 

 Brunsfels, J., father of botanist, 170 

 Bryonia, affinities of, seen first by 



Cordus, 297 

 Buckwheat, Tragus on germination 



of, 239 



Bulbaceae, Theophrastan family, 114 

 Bulbs, as defined by Fuchs, ioS 



Theophrastus on, 75 

 Bupleurum, genus, 246 

 Burgess, E. S., on Aster Atticus, 125 

 Bursa pastoris, 250 

 Butterfly-shaped flower, noted by 

 Fuchs, 2 1 5 



ignored by Tragus, 233 



dwelt on by Cordus, 288 



Cabalistic names, 219, 307 

 Cadiz, birthplace of Columella, i 50 

 Caesar, Julius, and Varro, 147, 148 

 Calamagrostis, genus, 1 1 <> 

 Calamintha, genus, 116 

 Calamodes, Theophrastan group, 1 1 1 



112 

 Calamos Euosmos, generic name, 



123 



Calendula, genus, 185 

 Calla palustris, 280 

 Callias, slave of Theophrastus, 57 

 Callio, frieid of Pheophrastus, 57 

 Callisthenes, friend of Theophrastus, 



57 



Caltha palustris, 280 

 Calyx communis of Linnaeus, 287 

 Calyx, crude early ideas of, 93, 203, 



284 



of poppies, Tragus on, 230 

 Camelina, genus, 250 

 Camerarius, Joachim, 264 

 Campaniform, anthologic term, 233 

 Campanula, genus, 233, 250 



