Q. Can you explain Bauhin?
We got the first reference of binary use of species name in Pinax (1623), a publication of a Swiss physician and botanist Casper Bauhin (1560-1624). In this publication attempts have been made to distinguish nomenclaturally between species and genera of plants.' This device helped to simplify the situation of expressing a species but it lacked a system. The generic name often comprised two or three words and the specific epithet was often a long phrase. Caspar Bauhin classified plants on the basis of texture and form. The binary nomenclature with which Linnaeus is usually credited was founded by Bauhin more than a century before its use by Linnaeus. In the next. subsection we are going to discuss the works of Linnaeus.