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religion and twice Dean of Wells, whose 

 New Herball in 1551 opened the new era 

 for England; Conrad Gesner (b. 1516 

 f 1561), called by Linnaeus the ornament 

 of his time(seculi sui ornamentum), who first 

 discerned the generic import of the fructi- 

 fication ; Cordus, who at Marburg in 1530 

 established the first Physic Garden; Do- 

 doens, a Dutch physician, in Latin called 

 Dodonseus ; Clusius, a Frenchman, whose 

 native name was L'Escluse ; Lonicer, after 

 whom the honeysuckle is named Lonicera ; 

 Lobel, whose name lives in the Lobelia, 

 a naturalised Englishman, who in his 

 Stirpium Adversaria (London 1570) first 

 projected ideas of natural classification ; 

 Andrea Cassalpino of Arezzo, who carried 

 these ideas and those of Gesner rapidly 

 towards maturity, but overshot his time ; 

 Columna; and the two Bauhins, one of 

 whom, Gaspar, has been already mentioned 

 as the final adorner of the great Com- 

 mentaries. In this series of authors there 

 is quite a new vein; they are the true 

 fathers and institutors of Modern Botany. 

 Out of this band moreover there issues 



