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played in plate-glass cases in well-lighted rooms. What I 
wish to call especial attention to in this paper is, not the 
economic or aesthetic side of these models, but their botan- 
ical accuracy. 
Has the general public, has even the scientific student any 
idea that the glass flowers in the Blaschka collection possess 
an accuracy of detail that is positively startling? The eye is 
at first attracted by the great beauty of the flowers, as they 
lie on their white cards in the glass cases, and, on a closer 
examination, we are more and more surprised and delighted 
to find nature so accurately followed in all those details that 
can be seen by the unaided eye. But surely the lens must 
reveal inaccuracies which are otherwise invisible. _ It seemed 
to me impossible that the artists could have produced a plant 
Covered, perhaps, with minute flowers, with such exactness 
that any flower taken at random should follow the specific 
characters of that particular species, as if we had the natural 
Plant before us. The general end would be subserved if the 
were kept in view, and a reasonable care in 
artists could not be too highly commended. But, surely, 
€xpect to find the right number of stamens in 
and such other 
Would reveal. 
curacy j t of 
= le those finer details that I made a critical study of a 
acters, In thi 
Not described 
DC, men was Aster Nove-Anglie L., vat. roseus 
t half of the plant is represented, besides four 
mer, icles of the flower-head. The hirsute stem and 
“us auriculate finely pubescent leaves are perfectly 
but, when one examines the inflorescence, the 
Ruided "i ens. As far as the delicate fingers of the artists, 
: accurate knowledge of the complex struc- 
Present, Ther head could accomplish it, everything is 
ee € linear recurved scales of the involucre, the 
fart Blaschica cqeation on the i i i i the article 
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