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The greatest part of his drawings and MSS, was 
preserved in the national library at Paris. 
§ 374. 
FLETH, EROCH. - 
From TOUTNEFORT fo VAILLANT. 
Or from 1694 to 1717. 
‘Tournefort begins a new era in botany. He fixes 
the genera more accurately from the structure of 
the flower, and arranges all known plants. Philo- 
sophers continue to arrange gramina and foreign 
plaats according to Tournefort’s method, which be- 
comes known all over Europe, till Vaillant shews 
that not yet all the genera are rightly fixed, and ap- 
proaches nearer to truth than any preceding natu- 
ralist.. 
Joseph Pitton, called from his native place, Tour- 
nefort, was born at Aix in Provence, June 5, 16563 
he travelled through France, the Pyrenees, through 
England, Holland, Spain and Portugal, and went 
at the king’s expence to the Levant. He became 
afterwards Professor of Botany, and a knight. Un- 
fortunately he lost his life 28th November, 1788, 
from a contusion on his breast, by a carriage. By 
his system, and his better discrimination of the ge- 
nera, he acquired great fame, which could only be 
obscured by the superior merits of Linné. During 
his travels in the Levant he was accompanied by a 
gentleman called Gundelsheimer, who afterwards 
founded the botanical garden at Berlin. Tourne- 
fort’s collection of plants is kept in the library at 
Ke 4 Paris, 
