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Excerpt from Botany for Beginners
I. Living bodies are characterised by the nature of their external form. Their Shape is definite, and bounded more or less by curved surfaces. Non-living bodies are either amorphous, that is without shape or crystalline, that is bodies with a definite shape. Crystals are bounded by ?at surfaces meeting in Sharp edges.
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