Editing Botanical garden (section)

==== Plant classification ====

{{further|Plant classification|Herbarium}}

The large number of plants needing description were listed in garden catalogues; and from 1753 [[Carl Linnaeus]] established the system of [[binomial nomenclature]] which greatly facilitated the listing process. Names of plants were authenticated by dried plant specimens mounted on card (a {{lang|la|hortus siccus}} or garden of dried plants) that were stored in buildings called [[herbarium|herbaria]], these [[Taxonomy (biology)|taxonomic]] research institutions being frequently associated with the botanical gardens, many of which by then had "order beds" to display the classification systems being developed by botanists in the gardens' museums and herbaria. Botanical gardens became scientific collections, as [[botanist]]s published their descriptions of the new exotic plants, and these were recorded for posterity in detail by superb botanical illustrations. Botanical gardens effectively dropped their medicinal function in favour of scientific and aesthetic priorities, and the term "botanic garden" came to be more closely associated with the herbarium, library (and later laboratories) housed there than with the living collections – on which little research was undertaken.<ref>{{harvnb|Heywood|1987|p=7}}</ref>