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Explain Bentham and Hooker system of classification?

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(i) A widely followed natural system of classification considered the best was proposed by two English botanist George Bentham (1800 - 1884) and Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911).
The classification was published in a three volume work as "Genera Plantarum" (1862-1883) describing 202 families and 7569 genera and 97,205 species
(iii) In this system the seeded plants were classified into 3 major classes such as Dicotyledons,Gymnospermae and Monocotyledonae.
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