In the next two hours, the students found four identical Blue Thorn Plants within a few hundred meters around.

Professor Xie's attitude has become more positive and serious.

Obviously, this means that what Yang Rui found was not a special variant. Although it is still to be studied whether a new species is a species, it is undoubtedly a species.

In fact, new species are often newly mutated species that form new populations. The so-called evolutionary static remarks are completely a joke in the professional and academic field.

Species, including humans, are evolving all the time.

However, to become a new species, the conditions required are not just variation. For taxonomists, the real problem is that species discovery cannot keep up with the speed of species disappearing, and species on Earth are exhausted to adapt to the rapidly changing earth.

Xu Anqing was also exhausted.

He also wandered in the wild for two hours, and he even saw a plant of the genus Blue Thorn from afar, but this only made him feel more and more irritable.

He wanted to ask Yang Rui, why do you think this plant is strange?

For Xu Anqing, who has lived in a large southern city since childhood, most of the plants in the Badaling Forest Area are strange. And he can't point to every plant and ask Professor Xie, at least, he can't point to plants dozens of meters away to ask Professor Xie.

However, if Xu Anqing was killed, he would not ask Yang Rui.

As a result, the more doubts heavier Xu Anqing's mood became lower.

Professor Xie saw Xu Anqing's changes.

After a while, when the specimen collection was over and the team was about to return, Professor Xie Gaoyi took the initiative to come to Xu Anqing and said, "You know, being a botanist and discovering new species is about temperament."

"Yeah? What does the temperament of a botanist mean?" Xu Anqing was a little confused for a moment.

Professor Xie looked at the distant mountains and said, "Some botanists have glue on their bodies. No matter how they do field surveys, they can discover new species. Some botanists may not have this temperament, but it does not mean that there is no way out."

Xu Anqing naturally looked at Professor Xie.

"For example, a folk person who has not received a complete botany education, has discovered a new species or found a suspected new species. What should he do?" Professor Xie was very tempted.

Xu Anqing replied without thinking: "It should be to find a professional and authoritative institution for the appraisal."

Professor Xie nodded and said, "That's right. But in fact, it is basically impossible for civilians to find professional institutions to conduct appraisals."

Xu Anqing said in surprise: "Why?"

"Because we don't have enough manpower to identify these species." Xie Gaoyi said calmly: "Do you know how many standards are there for our Peking University alone? "

Xu Anqing shook his head blankly.

Xie Gaoyi said: "I don't know either, because there are too many."

Xu Anqing was silent.

"What I mean by saying this is that discovering new species is actually not the only way out for botanists, nor is it the most important place. The botanists we need most are those who have the ability to identify and analyze new plants and new specimens." Xie Gaoyi said this, paused and said, "If you have enough identification and analysis capabilities, you don't have to go out to find new plants. You just stay in the laboratory and organize your past specimens."

Xu Anqing understood it immediately and said, "What you mean is that there are two types of botanists, one is to conduct field surveys and discover new species, and the other is to analyze and identify new species."

Xie Gaoyi was stunned for a moment and said, "Is this what I mean?"

"yes."

"You're wrong." Xie Gaoyi immediately denied, saying: "Botanists must be able to analyze and identify new species. However, some botanists are always unlucky when conducting field surveys and cannot find new species. Therefore, it is also a valuable task to check the specimens in the laboratory."

Xu Anqing wanted to bury his head in the soil, and then asked Professor Xie, who was buried deeper: Are you calling me an old peddler?

In Professor Xie's eyes, old scholars may be a good choice, but for young and frivolous college students, it is no different from being dead.

At this time, Professor Xie looked at Xu Anqing who was in deep thought and felt that he had perfectly comforted the child. He nodded and said, "If you want to learn botany knowledge in the future, you can come to me at any time."

After saying that, Professor Xie continued his teaching tasks and explained the plants he saw to the students along the way.

But unlike when I came here, the students who had just experienced a suspected new species discovery process were completely disinterested in familiar plants, and their eyes kept circling in the surrounding wilderness.

Everyone understands that plants on both sides of the mountain road are often seen, and in the surrounding wilderness, the chances of plants being observed are greatly reduced.

Not long after, a classmate shouted out: "Professor Xie, come and see this plant."

Professor Xie was not willing to favor one and the other, so he had to cross the slippery ground, pass through a wet grassland, and lean over to observe.

"Hu Zhizi." Professor Xie bent down and looked at it for five seconds, straightening his waist.

The student still looked at Professor Xie with a gaze.

"The legume plant is the genus Huzhizi." Professor Xie sighed and said, "This is a common shrub in the Badaling area."

"Isn't it a new species of Huzhizi?" The student was a little unwilling.

"Looking at branches, petioles, and short thorns are all normal forms." Professor Xie paused and said, "We talk about new species, generally there are relatively different appearances, and then we need to judge whether these appearances determine the classification group to which the species belongs. Well, everyone should observe more and accumulate more."

"Didn't Yang Rui discover it all." At some point, Geng Jian came to Professor Xie and muttered in a low voice.

Professor Xie sighed and said, "Discovering new species requires luck and the temperament of a botanist, not just by discovering it."

"Professor Xie, then come and take a look at this." Geng Jian, no matter what he said, found a different plant in front of him.

Professor Xie turned his head and said, "Weiji."

"For Mao?" Geng Jian thought for a moment, his face changed slightly, and he said, "Professor Xie, I think this plant is different from the plants we have seen along the way..."

"Guardian Spear!"

"No...you just take a look..."

"It's a holly gusset, a kind of shrub," Professor Xie said, adding: "This is an ornamental plant introduced from Japan and has been cultivated in China."

Geng Jian was stunned for a moment, speechless.

"I think this is the case. It's already late. We have to hurry back. Each student only has one chance to ask questions. You can ask questions or not. In addition, you are not allowed to leave the team for 50 meters. Otherwise, I will record the list and hand it over to your counselor." Professor Xie quickly came up with a solution, barely alleviating the situation.

Now even students who are not of questioning can’t help it.

Who doesn’t want to discover a plant by yourself? Go out to brag in the future? To say the least, I have also made contributions to world scientific research, sweated, suffered, and had a great peak in my life.

As for Professor Xie, he couldn't help but fall into the ocean of people's war.

He found that he didn't have to explain plants along the way. Almost all the plants passing by were turned out by the students, and everyone was almost wandering around 50 meters away, as if the distance from the dirt road was closer to success.

Bai Ling couldn't help but pull Yang Rui to discover a new species.
Chapter completed!