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almost always characteristic of the species; and 

 it is not, like leaf tissue or wood fibre, approxi- 

 mately the same material in different shapes; but 

 a separate element in each family of flowers, 

 of a mysterious, delightful, or dangerous influence, 

 logically inexplicable, chemically inconstructible, 

 and wholly, in dignity of nature, above all modes 

 and faculties of form. 



