PHILOSOPHY OF BOTANY. 



" Natitrae vero reriitn vis atque majestas omni nimirum mo- 

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

 templatur 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. 



