Mortfofi^ 20 J 
Was ever written ^ bu t S c H e l h A m m e R tella 
us> that he faw the whole work perfedl in 
the hands of the author. Mori son him- 
felf affigns, as a reafon for publiihing the 
Herbaceous Divifion jfirft, the greater mag- 
nitude of the undertaking, arifing from the 
vaft number, and ccnfequent difficulty of 
finding proper diftindions and charadlersi 
and becaufe he was unwilling to leave the 
moft difficult and abftrufe part of his work 
behind him unfinifhed, as happened to De-* 
LECHATviP, 2in& John Bauhine. Unhap^ 
pily, however, Mori son's untimely death 
fubjedled his work to the fame lot, and did 
not allow him to finifli more than nine, out 
of the fifteen claiTes of his own lyftem. 
He divides all herbaceous plants into fif- 
teen claffes, under the following titles : 
1. Scandentes. 7. Pappof^e La^efcen* 
2. Leguminof^, tes* 
5. SUiquoJ<;e. 8. Cuhnifene* 
4, 'Tricapfulares He^a^ 9. IJmhelliferie, 
petals, 10. Uricocde Purgatri-* 
5, Tricapfulares, alia, ces^ 
6, Cory mhif era, 
* 111 additamentis ad Conringium* 
X 2 II. Gakat^y 
