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40_46 Dorrington, Calaveras Co., 4800 ft. No. 10,063. Mimulus Same as 10,062. These palnts are pigmies, growing by hundreds in the litter layer under the pines in little swales. They are exactly like 10,062 but dwarf in vegetative body; the corollas usually tho not always smaller; but not relatively as small, by far, as the vegetative parts. No. 10,064. This campanulaceous plant grew in a little colony on the flat in an open in the forest. No. 10,065. Rudbeckia Meadow flat. 4 ft. h. Ovaries with a scaly crown. "Spike" dark greenish brown. Rays 1 3/4 in. long. No. 10,066. Aconitum columbianum Two lower sepals lanceolate; lateral ones rounded-obovate; each sepal of both sets (Cont. p.50.) |
40_47 Aug. 8, 1923 - A lady here, Mrs. Derge, who has an amateur's interest in native plants said that she found the books with pictures so much more helpful. I acquiesed but pointed out that pictures may in many cases be very misleading. A drawing is a picture of one individual of a species only; the number of individuals of that species are to be numbered not by hundreds, nor thousands, nor millions, but at least by billions or trillions. Over the range of the species conditions vary, sometimes so much so as to cause a considerable range of variation. Moreover no two individuals are exactly alike in any case, so great is the infinity of variation. - On the other hand a well-constructed diagnosis of selected chosen words covers the species as whole It is a description of a species, not of an individual. It is the business of the user of the manual to apply this diagnosis, ot use his experience and judgment in interpreting it with precision. The |
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