HERESIES TAXINOMISTES 
PAR LE PROF. 
ALPHONSE L. HERRERA 
Membre de la Société “Alzate,” Aide — Naturaliste 
au Museum National de Mexico, 
(Trad. par M. le Dr. Alfred Duges). 
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“La Botanique est l'art de déssécher des plantes dans des feuilles de pa- 
pier brouillard et de les injurier en grec et en latin. —KARR.” 
“The closet botanist performs the further useful service of ““revising” 
intricate families and genera of plants, unraveling the entanglements of pre- 
vious authors, and making such changes in the classification and names as 
are best suited to secure the maximum personal credit.— LEsTER F. WarD.” 
NS So contents (the botanists ) with the minor work of collecting 
and cataloguing plants, and with endeavouring to kuow all plants as far as 
possible by name, they lost whatever capacity they may have possessed 
for more difficult operations of the mind simply by not attempting them. 
— SACHS.” 
¿“Tf nomenclature is to become more and more dependent on the perso 
nal equation of the particular writer, it will cease to have any use or mea 
