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knowledge of a hundred that you are con- 

 tinually confusing the names of similar species, 

 wondering why two plants may not share the 

 same name, and inveighing against the "mud- 

 dlesomeness" of botany in general! 



Nature is never in a hurry. Learn from her 

 how to "make haste slowly!" 



I want to give you one more little hint be- 

 fore bringing this chapter to its close. 



A botanist ought to be a fascinating com- 

 panion and one of the most entertaining of 

 guests at picnic and rambling parties, but 

 just occasionally he is nothing of the sort! 

 He is, instead, a most inexpressible bore! 

 Most of us have met such a person. He posi- 

 tively hurls knowledge at the heads of les 

 autres and pours forth torrents of Latin at the 

 least provocation. Please do not develop into 

 anything so objectionable, will you? 



The average person has no wish to know 

 the Latin names of the plants he finds. He 

 does not care an atom whether "the thing" 

 has five or three styles "whatever styles may 

 be" or how this important matter of its 

 wealth in styles distinguishes it from its less 



