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Excerpt from Key to the System of Victorian Plants: Dichotomous Arrangement of the Orders, Genera and Species of the Native Plants, With Annotations of Primary Distinctions and Supporting Characteristics
The organographic alterations, largely introduced into these pages for the first time, in contrast to zoologic terms, have been ventured on only tentatively, but without thereby in any manner impairing the use of the work; indeed they arose mainly from a desire of the author, to simplify the wordings for organs of plants in a book, written especially for almost a new country and particularly for the juvenile portion of its population. This subject of desirable changes in organography by simplifying verbiage and by keeping apart from each other zoographic and phytographic expressions, has comprehensively been discussed in a treatise, which was written for the Sydney-meeting of the Australian Association for the advancement of Science, and which has been promulgated by the royal'society of New South Wales already. The main reasons. For adopting some alterations in the Candollean system, also for the present publication, have been set forth some years ago 'in the Systematic Census Of Australian Plants with chronologic literary and geographic annotations. Before any opinion is formed on these novations, the writings referred to should be studied with attentive care.
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