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THEOPHRASTUS (370-287 BC)
- "Father of Botany" greek naturalist who wrote "History of Plants"
- 500 species frome the mediteranian 4 groups: Trees, shrubs, undershrubs and herbs
- Trees are considered the most highly developed
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PLINY THE ELDER (23-79 AD)
- Roman Naturalist, wrote "Historia Naturalis" 1000 species including timber trees, horticultural plants
- He died at Mt. Vesuvius (volcanic eruption)
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THE HERBALISTS (BRUNFELS, BOCK, FUCHS CORDUS)
Docturine of Signatures, young art of printing, Woodcut illustrations, herbals
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JOACHIM JUNG (1587-1657)
- First Terminologist, node, internode, blade, petiole, simple & compound leaves
- stamens and styles, disk and ray flowers
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JOHN RAY (1627-1705)
- Monocots vs. Dicots,
- # of cotyledons, leaf venation, flower parts and vascular bundle arrangement
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PIERRE MAGNOL
- plant families, similarities in: roots, stems, flowers and leaves
- he was a french botanist, named the magnolia family after him
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JOESPH TOURNEFORT (1656-1708)
plant genera, student of magnol, classified over 10,150 species of plants
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RUDOLF CAMERARIUS (1665-1721)
- Sexuality in flowers, stamens are the male organ, pollen needed for seed formation
- ovary (seed bearing structure) is the female organ (now a days called the "pistol")
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CARL LINNAEUS (1707-1778)
- Binomial (2 names) nomenclature
- general name (genus)
- specific name (species)
- wrote "species plantarum"
- commemorated as a scientific authority
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MONOCOTS
- parrellel venation
- 1 cotyledon
- flower parts in threes
EX- corn, iris, wheat and trillium
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DICOTS
- 2 cotyledons
- flower parts in fours
EX- water lilly, rose, violet and sunflowers
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