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we might insist that nothing prevents interpreting this to mean not only % 
lie ‘chemical but biological analysis. Thus, the law permits and 
| prominent mention of the study of plants in their manifold relations 
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which sine ould I ever examine the flowers of the common milkwe 
es * so plentifully along the country roadsides. I have wel 
