Excerpt from The Edinburgh Journal of Natural History, and of the Physical Sciences, Vol. 1: A. D. 1835-1839
To know any natural object, however, does not merely consist in having seen it, or in recollecting its name. For we cannot be justly said to be acquainted with a. Plant until we know its rank in the vegetable kingdom, its structure and habit, with all the other circumstances already explained.
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