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Plant Classification 



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out, had arrived at the very important principle that the 

 seed and fruit characters were of major value in classifica- 

 tion, yet put forward a system which was distinctly inferior 

 to that of Gaspard Bauhin, although the latter appears 

 to have been guided by no such general principles. 



Text-fig. 72. " Pulsatilla " = Anemone Pulsatilla L., 

 Pasque-flower [Cainerarius, De plantis Epi- 

 tome... Matthioli, 1586]. 



Probably the reason for this is to be sought in the fact that 

 no system of classification can represent natural affinities, 

 unless it takes into account the nature of the plant as 



