I first began to dry specimens for preservation carelessly perhaps at first, but before the season was over, I had collected between one and two hundred species. (George Bentham)

I first began to dry specimens for preservation carelessly perhaps at first, but before the season was over, I had collected between one and two hundred species.

George Bentham

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