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names of thousands of plants and be able to recognise the species at a 

 glance, but he would be no more a botanist than would another man be 

 an engineer who knew only the names of different kinds of engines 

 and their parts, but who was quite ignorant of their construction and 



FIG. 63. Epilobium chloraefolium. 



[Photo, L. Cockayne. 



management. 



On the other hand, a man might know the names of 

 hardly a dozen plants and be a botanist of note. 



Classification goes still further. A number of related genera make 

 a family, and so on, until such fundamental divisions of the plant 



