CONTENTS. 



FIRST BOOK. 



History of Morphology and Classification 

 1530-1860. 



PAGE 



Introduction 3 



CHAPTER I. 



The Botanists of Germany and the Netherlands from Brunfels to 



Caspar Bauhin, 1 530-1623 13 



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, 1 759-1850 . . . 10S 



CHAPTER IV. 



Morphology under the Influence of the Doctrine of Metamorphosis 



and of the Spiral Theory, 1 790-1 850 155 



CHAPTER V. 



Morphology and Systematic Botany under the Influence of the 

 History of Development and the knowledge of the Cryptogams, 

 1840-1860 182 



