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 (m), he says, that Plants are to be ranged according to the Shape of their Flowers, Fruits and Seeds; having observed that Cultivation, or any accidental Difference of Soil, never alters the Shape of these more Essential Parts; but that every Plant has something there peculiar, by which it may be distinguished, not only from others of a remoter Genus, but also from those of the same Family.

About the same Time Andreas Cæsalpinus, and Fabius Columna, the first especially, reduced that into an Art, which Gesner had hinted at before; yet what they writ lay neglected, though Clusius, Caspar Bauhinus, Parkinson, Gerard and Johnson, and John Bauhinus had taken very laudable Pains in describing, not only the more general Sorts taken notice of by the Ancients, but also in observing their several Sub-divisions with great Niceness and Skill. John Bauhinus also had described every particular Plant then known, in his General History of Plants, with great Accuracy; and compared whatsoever had been said before, and adjusted old Names to those Plants which Modern Herbarists had gathered, with so much Care, that the Philological Part of Botany seems by him to