kY THE SAME TOKEN, YOU PUT TOGETHER MY SPECIMENS OF P I NUS MITIS,AND P # 

 GLABRA WALT. • GOOD SPECIES IF THERE ARE ANY 5>AND NOW I CANNOT MYSELF 

 SEPARATE TH€M AGAIN, IN THE ABSENCE OF THE FRUIT AND HABIT OF TREE. FROM 

 WHAT YOU NOW TELL ME, PROBABLY YOU WOULD NOW BE ABLE TO DO IT, BUT I 

 CANT. WHEN | SAW THE TWO OAKS PUT UNDER ONE HEAD BY GRAY, IT TOOK 



MY BREATH AWAY; BUT MY VERY CONSCIENTIOUS BROTHER THEO HAS FURNISHED ME 

 ANOTHER EXAMPLE GF WHAT DRIED SPECIMENS WILL DO, AS HE INSISTED THAT 

 0. FERRUGINEA AND FALCATA PASSED INTO EACH OTHER. WELL, I ADMIT THAT 

 ON LOOKING OVER THE SERIES THAT HE HAS IN OUR COLLECTION, ANY ONE NOT 

 SO LONG FAMILIAR WITH THE TWO TREES IN ALL THEIR PHASES AND UNDER ALL 

 SORTS OF EXTERNAL CONDITIONS, MIGHT COME TO THE SAME CONCLUSION. AS \ 

 MATTER OF FACT,, NO ONE SOUTH EVER DREAMS OF CONFOUNDING THE TWO; AND 

 THERE ARE NO REAL TRANSITIONS EXCEPT ONLY IN THE FORM^F YOUNG LEAVES, 

 AND EVEN THAT DISAPPEARS WHEN THE FALCTA . PASSES BEYOND THE AGE OF , SAY 

 10 TO 15 YEARS. BETWEEN THE MATURE LEAVES OF YOUNG SHOOTS OF THE TWO, 

 THE DIFFERENCE OF FORM AND TEXTURE IS QUITE AS GREAT AS BTWEEN THE LEA- 

 VES OF OLD TREES. BUT ASIDE FROM THAT, THE DIFFERENCES OF HABIT, WOOD 3$ 

 SEPARATE THEM AS WIDELY AS ANY OTHER SPECIES. 



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