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MBilOin OF TIIE LATE ME. JOHN JUST, OF BURY. 



breakfast had rambled into a scroggy limestone wood, for the 

 express purpose of looking for the Ladies' Slipper^ which, 

 we were told, had been found there within the last ten years. 

 Imagine the eagerness with which every nook, both likely and 

 unlikely, was searched. We had separated from each other, 

 a distance of perhaps twenty yards, when I was attracted by 

 a joyous scream ; at the same time, I saw my friend's hat 

 high whirling in, the air; and, with a school-boy's delight, 

 he thrice shouted — * Eureka, Eureka, Eureka ! ! ! ' And sure 

 enough there was the envied prize, — two plants in beautiful 

 bloom, and five smaller seedlings. We each brought away 

 one of the blooming plants; and I am afraid the news of our 

 success proved fatal at length to the seedlings." 



The same botanical friend has recorded of Mr. Just that — 

 "As a vegetable physiologist, he might be placed in the first 

 rank, although he never extended his acquaintance with plants 

 beyond those that are indigenous to Britain ; but in every 

 department of Britisli Botany he was thoroughly versed. The 

 plants of our own country afiforded him a field ample enough 

 to study the laws of the vegetable kingdom, which were the 

 great objects of his research, and in which he made many 

 interesting discoveries. To know the naines of a great number 

 of plants, or to have dried specimens pictorially laid down 

 upon paper, was not what he termed Botany. A precept of 

 bis, which deserves to be remembered, and which he once 

 repeated to me, when I remarked that I knew a particular 

 plant from a certain resemblance that it bore to some other, 

 was — *If you wish to become a botanist, you must learn 

 to distinguish plants by their differences, and not by their 

 likenesses;' — a piece of. advice I have found useful on many 

 occasions since. He was especially fond of Cryptogamic 

 Botany, as exhibiting the wonders of Creative Wisdom, dis- 

 played in these pigmies of vegetation ; and many a new 

 species was discovered by him, before it made its appearance 

 in any English work, qr was considered as a British plant." 



