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FOURTH EPOCH. 
From Caspar BAvUHIN ti/] TouRNEFORT. 
Or from 1593 to 1694. 
Through the persevering exertions of Caspar 
Bauhin, botany assumes a regular order. He be- 
comes the guide of all other botanists. Discoveries 
still continue to be made, but fixed generic names, 
and the means of constituting genera, remain still 
unknown, till the immortal Tournefort founds a new 
system, and introduces new generic characters. 
Centuries elapsed before a system was formed, and 
when it was formed still another century passed 
away before it was thought necessary to fix genera, 
and to take the generic character from the struc- 
ture of the flower. 
Caspar Bauhin, brother to John Bauhin, was born 
1560. We travelled like his brother through Italy, 
where he discovered many plants, which John 
had overlooked. Bauhin got a Professorship at Basil, 
and died 1624. Several works* which he has left 
* C. Bauhini SvdoriveZ seu enumeratio plantaruth ab her- 
bariis descriptatum. SBasil. 1598. 4to. with 9 figutes. The 
composition of this work took him 40 years; he has in it 
enumerated all the speties, but considered many varieties as 
species. | 
Ejusd. QWgedeoeos Theatri botanici. Basil. 1620. ato. An 
older edition of 1571 contains 140 cuts, which are very distinct. 
Hjusd. ‘Vheatri botanic: liber I. Basil, 1658. fol. with 
254. ie. 
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