rivinus, kuppius, 8tc. 353 



3. Seeds 1, 2, 3, 4, or numeroas. 



4. S^ed^vessels .1, 2, 3, 4, &c. 



The work of Cesalpinus, though fall of in- 

 formation, was too deep to be of common 

 use, and excited but little attention. A cen- 

 tury afterwards M orison, Professor of Botany 

 at Oxfordj improved somewhat upon the ideas 

 of the last-mentioned writer, but has been 

 ju&tly blamed tor passing over in silence the 

 source or his own information. Ray, the 

 great English aaturalist, formed a consider- 

 ably different system upon the fruit, as did 

 Hemrmn, Professor at Leyden, and the great 

 Boerhaave, bat in these last there is little 

 originality*. 



Rivinus, Ruppius and Ludwig in Germany 

 proposed to arrange plants by the various 

 forms of their Corolla, as did Tournefort the 

 illustrious French botanist, whose; system is 

 by far the bt si the kind ; and this having 

 been mor^ celebrated than most others, J shall 

 give a sketch of its plan. 



In the first place we meet with the old but 

 highly unphilospphical division into Herbs 

 and Trees, each of which sections is subdi- 



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