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SPECIFIC DISTINCTIONS. BOTANIC PLATES. 
KNOWLEDGE OF Stability of m » y 
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and even men of leisure can laie y e P® 1S th litera ture necessary for such a 
definitions. Very generally they do not poss .. , d botan ist is to them a 
task. What is so simple and so fiesta 8 t t difficulty is real but 
privileged cult fenced round with teth ic ” matized , and recorded truth, 
exaggerated. Science is simply dlscov ® 1 , ’ ex L eS sed in terms that will convey 
Its records must be exact, and they mu V eminently exact languages, and 
quite definite conceptions. Latin and Greek a e““je y ^ scientiflc terms . 
they have been freely drawn upon ya ^ V large ex t en t recorded 
What we may call the botanical tradi ‘ - j findings of science 
in such terms/and will be so handed on to postentthatis inore familiar 
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with little trouble understand and remember it. ] r v 
Technical words are interpreted by synonyms in the context or in the g oss i p 
The dfstSnl made in thisW between dead bark and living 
balanced leaves and unbalanced leaves, an *'tee f ru i ts Within the 
fullv explained in the general sections on bark, leaves, and tiu • T| 
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that in future S plantings the valuable may be propagated and the inferior avoide . 
THE BOTANIC PLATES. 
Each of the 70 species described in the letter-press is illustrated by a botanic 
nlate correspondingly numbered. The plates are arranged m sets following the 
verbal descriptions to which they refer. Leaves, buds, flowers, and seed-vessels 
are depicted in natural sizes. Anthers are enlarged. 
For making the drawings from which these illustrations have been produce , 
tbe writer was very fortunately able to secure the services of two artists who had 
worked under the late J. H. Maiden in preparing the plates for his Criiica/ PcOT- 
sion and Forest Flora. The artists, Miss Margaret Flockton and Miss Ethel A. 
King, had access to the type specimens and other material ini the Nationa 
Herbarium, Sydney, as well as to Maiden’s writings. In the difficult task of 
selecting the most suitable sprays for illustration, they were assisted by one ol 
the Herbarium Botanists, Mr. W. F. Blakely. The drawings are of high merit, 
and have elicited unqualified praise from all to whom the writer has shown them. 
The botanic plates for this book have been made from the drawings by experts 
at the Brett Printing Works, Auckland. The writer has pleasure in here record¬ 
ing his appreciation of the manner in which this work has been done. The figures 
appear throughout in faultless outline and good tone. With the letter-press 
descriptions and these illustrations for 70 species, there should soon be a great 
advance in specific knowledge of the eucalypts in this country. 
