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CONTENTS 



CHAPTER I. 



THE INFANCY OF THE KNOWLEDGE- OF THE SCIENCE OF 

 PLANTS. 



PAGK 



Old fancies and notions about plants — Aristoteles, the first 

 botanist — Theophrastus — Plinius — Dioscorides — Their 

 lives, labours, and troubles I 



CHAPTER n. 



THE RISE OF THE SCIENCE OF PLANTS. 

 John Ray — Joseph de Tournefort — Their lives ... 27 



CHAPTER HI. 



THE LIFE OF IJNN^US. 



The science of plants begins to mature, to be reformed, and 



to be made more exact 52 



CHAPTER IV. 



THE LIFE OF LiNN^us {Continued). 



The publication and reception of the artificial system of clas- 

 sifying plants . . . . . . . .81 



