"If... an inquiry into the Nature of Vegetation may be of good 

 Import; It will be requisite to see, first of all, What may offer it 

 self to be enquired of; or to understand, what our Scope is: That so 

 doing, we may take our aim the better in making, and having 

 made, in applying our Observations thereunto." 



Nehemiah Grew, The Anatomy of Plants, 1682. 



