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CHAPTER V. 
MAY. 
Tuts is perhaps the loveliest month of the year, and very 
abundant in treasures for the botanist; the young student 
will, indeed, find them multiply so rapidly that a feeling of 
confusion and doubt, as to the possibility of overcoming so 
many simultaneous difficulties, may arise for a time; but the 
best plan to be pursued, is that of selecting some of the most 
striking of the specimens, and, by determining those, a few 
certain points will be ascertained, and the next year the 
study will be found much more simple. Above all, the lover 
of nature must not be discouraged ; for if, for example, the 
Veromca hederifolia, which was found in March, be well 
impressed on the mind, the rest of the species will, when 
gathered, be easily recognized as belonging to the same genus; 
