A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them.

"It is the genus that gives the characters, and not the characters that make the genus."

""Linnea".. . . A plant of Lapland, lowly, insignificant, disregarded, flowering but for a brief space -- from Linnaeus who resembles it."

Nature does not proceed by leaps and bounds.

"If a tree dies, plant another in its place."