CONTENTS. 



FIRST BOOK. 



HISTORY OF MORPHOLOGY AND CLASSIFICATION. 



1530-1860. 



PAGE 



Introduction .... 3 



CHAPTER I. 



The Botanists of Germany and the Netherlands from Brunfels to 



Caspar Bauhin, 1530-1623 ... J 3 



CHAPTER II. 



Artificial Systems and Terminology of Organs from Cesalpino to 



Linnaeus, 1583-1760 -37 



CHAPTER III. 



Development of the Natural System under the Influence of the 



Dogma of the Constancy of Species, 1759-1850. . . 108 



CHAPTER IV. 



Morphology under the Influence of the Doctrine of Metamorphosis 



and of the Spiral Theory, 1790-1850 . J 55 



CHAPTER V. 



Morphology and Systematic Botany under the Influence of the 

 History of Development and the knowledge of the Cryptogams, 

 1840-1860 l82 



