. Method. 3^1 
the Solarium *y the Calceolus, with the OrchU 
des : and he exprefsly fays, that the charac- 
ter fhould be formed from the flower^ and 
the feed, rather than from the leaves. This 
was in the year 1 565. Other pafiages occur, 
by which it appears, he had the fame ideas 
fo early as 1559. But, perhaps, there is 
no proof of the importance he gave to thefe 
parts, more indubitable, than his having 
been the firft who delineated them fepa- 
rately, with the figures of his plants ; of 
which numerous inftances may be feen im 
the tables publiflied by Schmiedel. 
But Gesner did not live to improve the 
hints he thus drew from nature ; and, what 
is wonderful, they were negleOred by thofe 
great luminaries of the fcience, Clusius, 
and the Bauhines. It was referved for 
C^sALPiNus, a man in whom was united 
an exquifite knowledge of plants, with a 
truly philofophical genius. He had been 
the difciple of Ghinus, and was afterwards 
phyfician to Pope Clement VIII. He de- 
fcribed, with exquifite fkill, the plants of 
his own country, and left an Herbarium of 
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