134: PRINCIPLES OF BOTANY, ETc. 
§ 126. 
CAESALPINUS was the first botanist who invented 
a system. He selected the fruit, and the situation 
of the corculum, as the distinguishing characters. 
His system has fifteen classes, wiz. 
1. Arbores, corculo ex apice seminis. 
2. a basi seminis. 
3. Herbz, solitariis seminibus. — 


Ai) rere nseee eee HN ACCISH 
[Sy ieee capsulis. 
6. —---— bifils seminibus.: 
Te ec capsulis. 
8. ———--- triplici ae fhibrosz. 
_— - bulbose. 
10. -———~--- quaternis seminibus. 
11, ———--- pluribus seminibus. Anthemides. 

LQ. —eenee 


— Cichoracez s. A- 
cantacese. | 
--- flore communi. 
14) ees Tollicwits: 
Gy --- flore fructuque carentes. 
This system is for our times, when such a multi- 
tude of plants have been discovered, no longer of use. 
Considered as the first attempt at system It is en- 
titled to great consideration. ‘The fruit 1s a very 
constant part, and this classification would be par- 
ticularly commendable, if plants and trees had not 
been separated.. In the two first classes trees are 
distinguished according to the situation of the cor- 
culum; the other classes are arranged according to 
the fruit of the plants. The eighth and ninth classes 
g ? have 


