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Brief Dissertation on the Various Methods of Classifiying
Plants
of
John Ray
London 1696
Preface
1. The origin and progress of classification methods
2. The characteristic marks of genera
3. His own methods of classifying species
4. The characteristic marks which D. Tournefort criticizes and
rejects
5. Critique of Tournefort's method