A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe … - Carl Linnaeus

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When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.

Carl Linnaeus

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.

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There are as many species as the infinite being created diverse forms in the beginning, which, following the laws of generation, produced many others, but always similar to them: therefore there are as many species as we have different structures before us today.

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The species and the genus are always the work of nature [i. e. specially created]; the variety mostly that of circumstance; the class and the order are the work of nature and art.

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There is no generation from an egg in the Mineral Kingdom. Hence no vascular circulation of the humours as in the remaining Natural Kingdoms.

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All the species recognized by Botanists came forth from the Almighty Creator's hand, and the number of these is now and always will be exactly the same, while every day new and different florists' species arise from the true species so-called by Botanists, and when they have arisen they finally revert to the original forms. Accordingly to the former have been assigned by Nature fixed limits, beyond which they cannot go: while the latter display without end the infinite sport of Nature.

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Botany is based on fixed genera.

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