ABSTRACT
III lines 315-18. in specie: “in species”. f20 ipso genere: “by the actual genus”. Coleridge here followed the traditional (Aristotelian) logic, genus being the larger
subdivision of which species is the smaller, e.g. genus, animal, species, man. The terms were taken over and applied more exactly in botany and zoology. In logic, but not in botany, the genus (e.g. plant) could be subdivided into species (e.g. trees, mosses, etc), which in turn could be treated as genera and again subdivided many times until the single individual is reached (5276).
