Umbelliferarum Distributio Nova (1672), Morison gave a definitive statement of the principles of his method and was the first person ever to write a "monograph of a specific group of plants", the Umbelliferae. Morison was fatally injured by the pole of a carriage as he was crossing the street on 9 November 1683 and died the following day at his house in Green Street, Leicester-fields. He was buried in the church of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster. Works (1669) An octavo volume made up of: pp. 1–347: Hortus Regius Blesensis Auctus (a new edition of Abel Brunier's Hortus Regius Blesensis with Morison's contributions). pp. 351–459: Hallucinationes Caspari Bauhini in Pinace, item Animadversiones in tres Tomos Universalis Historiae Johannis Bauhini. pp. 463–499: Dialogus inter Socium Collegii Regii Gresham dicti et Botanographum Regium. Plantarum Umbelliferarum Distributio Nova, per Tabulas Cognationis et Affinitatis, ex Libra Naturae observata et detecta (1672). Historia Plantarum Universalis Oxoniensis (Vol. 1, 1680) Legacy At the time of his death, Morison's opus magnum the Historia Plantarum Universalis Oxoniensis remained unfinished, with only one volume published in 1680 detailing fifteen classes of his classification system. He had collaborated on this volume with Charles Hatton. It was entrusted by Oxford University to Jacob Bobart the Younger, who on the death of his father Jacob Bobart the Elder published a second and final instalment of the Historia in 1699 dealing with the remaining ten sections of herbaceous plants. Around 1737, in a letter to Swiss naturalist Albrecht von Haller, Carl Linnaeus wrote: References Bibliography 1620 births 1683 deaths 17th-century Scottish botanists Botanists with author abbreviations British taxonomists Scientists from Aberdeen Alumni of the University of Aberdeen Cavaliers University of Angers (pre-1793) alumni Academics of the University of Oxford