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jnst as the wheat we live upon, and the mignonette we love, have no archetypes 

 among any of the wild plants that we know. Such artificially created types as 

 these cannot be ignored by the Linnseus of the future. And the indubitable 

 occurrence of hybrids between different species in a wild state, and the power of 

 these hybrids to transmit their characteristics to a posterity to which "reversion" 

 is practically unknown, may necessitate some measure, in the days to come, for 

 recognising and recording them. As the sphere of knowledge is extended, the 

 range of scientific methods must be extended also. That which satisfied Aris- 

 totle and Pliny and their followers did not satisfy Linnaeus ; why then should 

 we hold the best that Linnaeus could devise incapable of improvement now ? 

 The sooner we face the facts, the more intelligibly shall we be able to hand 

 down our conquests of the Unconditioned to those who will come after us. 

 Observations are every day becoming useless, for no other reason than that the 

 forms to which they referred were insufficiently identified. The more a science 

 grows, the more minute must be the subdivision of its records. 



I have shown that binomialism was a gradual, an inevitable, and a useful 

 growth. I believe that a very short tiaie vi'ill show that trinomialism is its 

 inevitable outcome and successor. 



