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71_12 It is extremely desirable as a practice in field work to collect representative material of the species in its best development, in its most successful state, in the form which marks it [dominancy?]. Mere starved dwarfs are usually not worth while to collect. All species have such states that fail on account of sterility or may fail from lack of water say, as seedlings. But caution should be exercised not to pass over things which are not mere dwarfs but are real states in themselves. It is not likely that Lupinus onustus is as rare as appears from herbarium material. It is the easiest thinkg to pass it by as a |
71_13 starved or underdeveloped state of some other species, whereas it is normally small and scraggly looking. It is suae speciei. cf. also eriophyllum nubigenum, - invalid looking. - How seldom do persons give the locality for a plant collected. Judge W. Fry collected the rare Quercus morehus in 1908 in the Kaweah regin but gave no locality. It is more important that the plant have local habitation than a name, for the name of the plant may be supplied but not the locality or seldom, it not given in the first place. - Galton, Grancis. The Art of Travel. - In the collecting og scraps there is an elememt of the mind not to be overlooked - the element of a puzzle, a mystery, an enigma, - and therefore excitin curiosity or wonder. |
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