Excerpt from The Natural History of Plants, Vol. 1: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction and Distribution
Not long ago two artisans, who had borrowed a copy of the natural history OF plants from one of the Vienna public libraries and had studied its pages, called upon me, asking me to show them under the microscope some of the things there described.
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