RIVINUS, RUPPIUS, Sec. 353 



S. Seeds 1, IJ, 3, 4, or numerous. 

 4. Seed-vessels 1, 2, 3, 4, cS:c. 



The work of Ciusulpinus, though full of in- 

 formation, was too deep to be of common 

 use, and excited but httle attention. A cen- 

 tury afterwards Morison, Professor of Botany 

 at Oxford, improved somewhat upon the ideas 

 of the last-mentioned writer, but has been 

 justly blamed for passing over in silence the 

 source of his own information. Ray? the 

 great English naturalist, formed a consider- 

 ably different system upon the fruit, as did 

 Hermann, Professor at Leyden, and the great 

 Boerhaave, but in these last there is little, 

 orisiinalitv. 



Rivinus, Ruppius and Ludwig in Germany 

 proposed to arrange plants by the various 

 forms of their Corolla, as did Toumefort the 

 illustrious French botanist, whose system is 

 by far the best of the kind ; and this having 

 been more celebrated than most others, I shall 

 give a sketch of its plan. 



In the first place we meet with the old but 

 highly unphilosophical division into Herbs 

 and Trees, each of which sections is subdi- 

 2 A 



