One day, the eminent botanist Dr. Perry Winkel strode out on a
botanical expedition. He walked for some distance along paths he
thought he knew, but before long he found that he was utterly lost.
He looked around him, and couldn't recognise his surroundings. As
he looked more closely, however, Dr. Winkel was struck by the
botanical richness of the place he found himself in - so many
unexpected species growing in such unusual proximity. Looking one
way, he could see white campion, few-flowered spike-rush and wood
melick; smooth tare and rue-leaved saxifrage; annual pearlwort,
herb paris and square-stemmed St. John's wort. Looking the other
way, he saw galingale, lesser burdock and hawthorn; slender
spike-rush and cross-leaved heath; bay willow, moss campion and may
lily. Dr. Winkel almost began to panic, but applying his classical
scientific brain to the problem, he soon derived his exact
location. Triumphant, Dr. Winkel walked home, and realised later
that in his haste, he had left a box behind with his log book and
other items in it. Tired after his day of excitement, Dr. Winkel
decided, rather than retrieve his box, to leave it there for other
people to find, confident that a return trip could never match the
incredible diversity that he had seen.
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