PHILOSOPHY OF BOTANY. 



" Naturae vero rerum vis atc|ue majestas omni nimirum mo- 

 mento fide caret, si quis niodo partes ejus ac non totam con- 

 templatiir animo." (Plin. Hist. Nat.) 



The power and greatness of the works of nature lose of their 

 true comprehension in nearly every instance when the mind 

 seizes on particulars and does not embrace the whole. 



