Do they not sneakingly bestow on me their crass inability to do anything with their own misbegotten progeny, a subterfuge which I scornfully fub off on text-books?

[…]: the hopelessness of attemps at plant identification for anyone but a botanist resides in the fact that the flora of the Amazon basin is the most complex on earth; the majority of all plant species known to man are to be found in this vast forest, and Louis Agassiz once identified one hundred and seventeen distinct woods, including palms, myrtles, laurels, acacias, bignonias, rosewood, cecropias, bombaceas, Brazil-nuts or castanheiras, rubber, fig, and purplehearts, in an area a half-mile square.

1926 [Blackie & Son], Marjorie Long (translator), Tullio Levi-Civita, The Absolute Differential Calculus (Calculus of Tensors), 1977, Dover https://books.google.com.au/books?id=8PzDAgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22absolute+differential+calculus%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi60s2Pq5DsAhX94zgGHf40DQ0Q6AEwAHoECAAQAg#v=onepage&q=%22absolute%20differential%20calculus%22&f=false.

Wherein Rome hath done you any scath, Let him make treble satisfaction.