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Old 04-03-2007, 02:56 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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In article ,
Stewart Robert Hinsley writes:
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| Back in the 18th century Linnaeus ("The Father of Botany") introduced
| both the binomial naming scheme which is the root of the modern
| International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (ICBN), and an artificial
| (i.e. not based on relationships) classification based on the numbers of
| stamens and pistils. He also produced an outline of a natural (one based
| on relationships, as far as he could deduce) classification

Which was and is quite incredible, being largely valid today.


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Nick Maclaren.