44 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 54 



The line of the development of organography — organography as 

 necessarily including terminology — is that along which a truly 

 coherent and philosophic history of botany must needs be written. 

 The condition is one that will entail the expenditure of incalculable 

 time and unremitting toil; but the cost of time and energy must not 

 be counted if anything beyond disconnected and fragmentary 

 paragraphs of history are to be the outcome. 



