328 HISTORY OF BOTANY. 



logy ; but before we speak of this portion of our 

 subject, we must complete what we have to say of 

 it as a classificatory science. 



Sect. 4. Sequel to the Epoch of Ccesalpinus. Fur- 

 ther Formation and* Adoption of Systematic 

 Arrangement. 



SOON after the period of which we now speak, that 

 of the restoration of the Stuarts to the throne of 

 England, systematic arrangements of plants appeared 

 in great numbers; and in a manner such as to show 

 that the minds of botanists had gradually been ripen- 

 ing for this improvement, through the influence of 

 preceding writers, and the growing acquaintance with 

 plants. The person whose name is usually placed 

 first on this list, Robert Morison, appears to me to 

 be much less meritorious than many of those who 

 published very shortly after him; but I will give 

 him the precedence in my narrative. He was a 

 Scotchman, who was wounded fighting on the royal- 

 ist side in the civil wars of England. On the 

 triumph of the republicans, he withdrew to France, 

 when he became director of the garden of Gaston, 

 Duke of Orleans, at Blois ; and there he came under 

 the notice of our Charles the Second ; who, on his 

 restoration, summoned Morison to England, where 

 he became Superintendent of the Royal Gardens, 

 and also of the Botanic Garden at Oxford. In 1669, 

 he published Remarks on the Mistakes of the two 



