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Excerpt from Vegetable Teratology, an Account of the Principal Deviations From the Usual, Construction of Plants
Till within a comparatively recent period but little study was given to exceptional formations. They were considered as monsters to be shunned, as lawless deviations from the ordinary rule, unworthy the atten tion of botanists, or at best as objects of mere curiosity. By those whose notions of structure and conforma tion did not extend beyond the details necessary to distinguish one Species from another, or to describe the salient features of a plant in technical language whose acquaintance with botanical science might almost be said to consist in the conventional application Of a number of arbitrary terms, or in the recollection of a number of names, teratology was regarded as a chaos whose meaningless confusion it were vain to attempt to render intelligible, - as a barren field not worth the labour Of tillage.
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