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scription, to find out infallibly any plant that shall be offered to 
him, especially being assisted by the figure of it.” 
“IT may truly say that if . . . you would, after just examina- 
tion, weigh my ‘ History of Plants’ in the incorrupt balance of 
impartial judgment, you would find it rather to need pardon than 
to merit praise, so many defects and errors there might be dis- 
covered therein.” 
58. Ray, JoHn. 
AMethodus plantarum nova. 1682. 
First edition. 
It was in this volume that Ray described the true nature of 
buds, speaking of them as annual plants springing from old stock. 
He also recognized, though not naming them, the basic divisions 
of Monocotyledons and Dicotyledons. 
59° Ray; JOHN. 
Stirpium furopaearum extra Britannias nascentiuin sylloge 
1694. 
First edition. 
60. Ray, Jon. 
Synopsis methodica stirpium Britannicarum .. . cum indice & 
virium epitome. 1690, 
First edition. 
The first systematic British flora. In this work, and in his 
later Sylloge (1694), Ray accepts Grew’s teaching that the sta- 
mens are male organs. 
61. Ray, JoHn. 
De variis plantarum methodis dissertatio brevis .. . 1696. 
First edition. 
62. Repi, FRANCESCO. 
Experimenta circa generationem insectorum ad nobilissimum 
virum, Carolum Dati. 1671. 
Second edition and first Latin translation. 
3y experiment, Redi proved that grubs and maggots do not de- 
velop spontaneously in decaying matter; he thus helped to lay the 
foundations of biogenesis. 
