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Excerpt from Analytical Guide to the Natural Orders of the Vegetable Kingdom: Printed for the Use of Students in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The study of the genera and species of the cryptogamous plants is dificult, because some of the parts on which the distinctions are based are very minute, and require the use of the microscope; because the range of variation in the same species is often large and because in many of them the organs of reproduction are rarely met with. The natural difficulties are still farther aggravated by the unnecessary multi plication of terms used by different specialists to designate similar organs. Indeed, the almost limitless resources of the Greek language have been severely taxed to supply words for successive authors, and there is, as yet, no single glossary to be found which gives a full explanation of all the necessary and the super?uous names. Another trouble yet is the want of books describing, in one work, the whole cryptogamic ?ora of one country.
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