Morison, R.

…He studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, and became a lecturer in classical languages ​​at his alma mater, and later a clergyman, but in 1661 he quit due to political views and continued to travel around the country and continental Europe to observe nature with his student, the zoologist Francis Willughby (1635-72), and died while he was in his hometown. Ray, along with the botanist Robert Morison (1620-83), is said to be the first botanist in England to leave the herbalist. He created a catalogue of British plants, and in his new botanical system, he was the first to divide the herbs into the imperfect classes (cryptogamous plants) and the perfect classes (flowering plants), and the latter into monocotyledons and dicotyledons, which was a groundbreaking achievement, and Ray's system was adopted in England for a long time. …

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…ケンブリッジ大学のトリニティ･カレッジで勉強し，母校の古典語の講師，後に牧師となったが，政治上の見解から1661年にやめ，弟子の動物学者ウィラビーFrancis Willughby(1635‐72)を伴い国内やヨーロッパ大陸各地に自然観察の旅をつづけ，たまたま故郷にいるときに死んだ。レイは植物学者モリソンRobert Morison(1620‐83)とともに英国で本草を離れた初めての植物学者といわれる。英国の植物目録をつくり，新しい植物体系で初めて草部を不完全類(隠花植物)と完全類(顕花植物)に分け，後者を単子葉植物と双子葉植物とに分けたことは画期的で，イギリスでは長らくレイの体系が採用された。…

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