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animals and Ray to plants. Of Ray’s several publications 
in botany, his Historia Plantarum in three volumes (1686- 
1704) is the most extensive. In another work, as early as 
1682, he had proposed a new classification of plants, which 
Fic. 33.—Joun Ray, 1628-1705. 
in the next century was adopted by Jussieu, and which gives 
Ray a place in the history of botany. 
Willughby died in 1662, at the age of thirty-eight, leaving 
an annuity to Ray, and charging him with the education of 
