CONTENTS. 



FIRST BOOK. 



HISTORY OF MORPHOLOGY AND CLASSIFICATION 

 1530-1860. 



PAGE 



Introduction . . . ~ ."'.'' '. : '. . . . 3 



CHAPTER I. 



The Botanists of Germany and the Netherlands from Bnmfels to 



Caspar Banhin, 1530-1623 ' l- 



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 . . . v . 155 



CHAPTER V. 



Morphology and Systematic Botany under the Influence of the 

 History of Development and the knowledge of the Cryptogams, 

 1840-1860 . . 182 



