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CHAP. 24. 
^4 Jhcrt hiftory of the rife and f rogrefs of fyflem, 
method, or claffification of plants ; from its ori- 
gin to its revival in England — General fate of 
arrangements before Gesn£r anu Cisalpine 
, —Ray and Mori son both laboured in the re- 
vival of method at the fame time — Advantages 
vf fyGicm — Farious methods of cl^iTification 
f^un^erateci. 
METHOD, 
AGREEABLY to niy purpofe, I 
now proceed to give a concife ^c-^ 
count of the rife and progrefs of what is 
underftood by method^ fyfleniy or cla[]if cation 
of plants, arifing from agreement in the 
parts of frud:ification, independent of any 
afTociation from the fades externa^ or habit 
of the plant. To this, I fhall add as brief 
an hiftory of another important difcovery^ 
that of the fexes of plants ; in confeqiience 
of which, fyftem itfelf has been carried to 
a much higher degree of perfedion. 
Yh^i'G ^i'^ i^'O traces of what the moderns 
call 
