120 EARLY SPRING IN MASSACHUSETTS. 
more favorable conditions, the human plant that 
is short-lived and dwarfed becomes perennial 
and arborescent. .... I have learned in a 
shorter time and more accurately the meaning 
of the scientific terms used in botany from a few 
plates of figures at the end of the “ Philosophia 
Botanica,” with the names annexed, than a vol¬ 
ume of explanations or glossaries could teach. 
And, that the alternate pages may not be left 
blank, Linnaeus has given on them very concise 
and important instruction to students of botany. 
This lawgiver of science, this systematizer, this 
methodizer, carries his system into his studies 
in the field. On one of the little pages he 
gives some instruction concerning “ Herbatio ” 
or botanizing. Into this he introduces law, or¬ 
der, and system, and describes with the great¬ 
est economy of words what some would have 
required a small volume to tell, all on a small 
page ; tells what dress you shall wear, what in¬ 
struments you shall carry, what season and 
hours you shall observe, namely, “ from the leaf¬ 
ing of the trees, Sirius excepted, to the fall of the 
leaf, twice a week in summer, once, in spring; 
from seven in the morning till seven at night.” 
When you shall dine and take your rest, etc., 
whether you shall botanize in a crowd or dis¬ 
persed, etc., how far you shall go, two miles 
and a half, at most; what you shall collect, 
what kind of observations make, etc., etc. 
