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3. This author dates the epoch of reformattQH 

 from the firft publication by Linn^us in 1735 5, 

 and then colleds together into one view the im. 

 provement it has received from the labours of this 

 great man. He enumerates the feveral difciples 

 of Linnaeus, who afiifted him, by their travels into 

 foreign parts j adds a lift of thofe writers th-at 

 have followed his method and clofes with a fketch 

 of what is yet wanting to give further perfedion 

 to the fcience. ," 



118. Prolepsis Plantarum. H.Ulmark, 1760. , 



The theory of vegetation built hy^' Malpighi zni 

 Grew^ on the anatomy of plants, and that of Hales 

 and others, drawn from what may be called their 

 phyfiology, has not been followed in the Unndean 

 fchool. LiNNi^us early conceived the idea of aa 

 analogy between plants and animals, and fpeaks 

 pf vegetables alfo, as confifting of a.;;2^i?//Z^ry anc^ 

 cortical fubftance^ (in the former of which the pro- 

 per life and principle of vegetation refides, apd by 

 which alone it is propagated) confidering the latter 

 as the organs of nourifliment to the former. This, 

 idea feems alfo to have led him to adopt the opinion 

 of C^efalpinus^ relating to the evolution of thele 

 two parts, in the order which is mentioned in the 

 66th thefis namely, that the Cortex^ or outer Bark, 

 is ultimately fpent in forming the Perianthiumy or, 

 Cup of the flower, befides which, it muft be ob« 

 ferved, that the leaves arc produced from the cor- 

 tical fubftance only the Liher^ or inner Bark, ia 

 the Corolla or Petals j the Lignum^ or woody part, 



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