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The science of botany, as now understood, cannot be held, how- 
’ ever, to date farther back than two centuries. In the year 1682 
Nehemiah Grew, the Secretary to the Society of London, after- 
wards the Royal Society, published his “ Anatomy of Plants.” A 
few years later the French .botanist Tournefort, then Professor of 
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Fig. 287.—Tournefort. 
Botany at the Jardin des Plants, published his “Elements of 
* Botany,” being the first attempt to define the exact limits of 
genera in vegetables. Most of the genera established by Tourne- 
fort remain, proving the correctness of the formula from which he 
deduced their common characters. Tournefort succeeded to a large 
£xtent in unravelling the — which the science of botany 
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