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The Floral King. 239
Linnzan Society,” and many interesting portraits
and relics of the famous Swedish Naturalist.
The late Dr. Ewald Ahrling summed up as
follows :—‘‘It is generally recognised as the prin-
cipal merit of Linnzus, that he established the
sexual system, or the scientific arrangement of the
various form of the vegetable kingdom according to
the sexual parts of the flowers: stamens and pistils.
Although. the method, from a practical view, is of
particular significance, as it can be easily learned,
and utilized, yet purely scientifically it becomes of
less moment than many others. To reach—so
to speak—the very life of the plants, we must
quite naturally follow their development from seed
to seed.
“This of course is not possible, if we exclusively
take into consideration some certain parts of the
plant, during a certain period of the development.
Linnzus perceived and acknowledged this sooner
than anyone else; but he also shows that the ideal
of the systematizing part of the science is to seek to
approach this goal, but that the same never can be
reached by any mortal. For the great majority of
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