La página de bienvenida al libro Plant Variation and Evolution del que son autores D Briggs and SM Walters recoge las siguientes citas:     The standing objection to botany has always been, that it is a pursuit that amuses the fancy and exercises the memory, without improving the mind, or advancing any real knowledge; and, where the science is carried no further than a mere mere systematic classification, the charge is but too true. But the botanist…