Plantain and Scabious a la Ruskin - morphological affinities

摘要

'We never see anything clearly', maintained John Ruskin (1819-1900), about whom I have written previously, in BSBI News 100: 29-30 (2005); 107: 29-30 (2008), and who therefore needs no introduction. What appears distinct at first sight means that oneis only seeing enough of it to make out what it is. When one attempts to analyse it, such as the ground beneath one's feet, it becomes, as is the case with the ground, so many numberless grains of dust, and thus 'full of confusion and doubtful form'.