(11-01-2017, 01:51 PM)Anton wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Well, the times in question are pre-Linnaeus, so the whole classification approach did not exist then yet. The question is whether trientalis could be called (or messed with) Lysimachia back then. Need to check what Pliny says...
They did have classifications prior to Linnaeus. He even kept some of the old designations (and added and revamped many others).
Some of the pre-Linnaeus classifications were two names and some were longer than two names. Some attempted classification systems actually described the plants with short Latin words for the leaves and sometimes roots or flowers, so that the name was four or five words long.
He didn't come up with a new system, he organized and standardized and updated what was already evolving.