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HERBARIUM, or Hortus Siccus, a collection of plants so dried and preserved as to illustrate as far as possible their characters.

He also travelled over the country in search of rare herbs, with a view to publishing a hortus siccus, but the plan failed.

Horticul′turist, one versed in the art of cultivating gardens.—Hortus siccus, a collection of dried plants arranged in a book.

What a resource that Hortus Siccus is to him!

Let us seek to realise such positions, to comprehend the marvellous heart which they reveal to us, and we shall derive more love and trust from the effort than from all such doctrinal inference and allegorizing as would dry up, into a hortus siccus, the sweetest blooms of the sweetest story ever told.