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V EDITION of LINDL
aro, E
LY'S SCHOOL BOTANY.
In decoy
CIIOOL BOTANY
Or,the RL'IHMENTS of BOTANICAL SCIENCE.
By JOHN LINDLEY, PILO., F. 8.5.,
Profmor of Botany in Univernity Cotlege, London.
New Edition with Numerous Alterations and nearly
• Hundred Illustrations.

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▪ work wee originally prepared, in bailie, to meet a regulation
University of London, by which it was required of all etudents,
two yeers. previously to proceeding to their Brat degree, they
d be manoined, among other subjects, in "The characters and
esters of the principal natural clan*. and orders of plants bei-
ng to the Flora of Europe, in the botanical classification of De
e obvious purpeee of this regulation was to make young man
tinted wills the names and properties of the
atom'meta/ the.
sands they: re that, after receiving what is called ani
noon, they might not be thrown upon the world, lomat at
=PA, at tenet, of the cemmeneet plants of their owns/wary.
e opinion of the author, the mewure wan calculated Isabel •
good, and to supply a wide gap in the common routine of
it, where it is must desirable that some natural history demill be
dwell, if it be only to relieve the tedium of the less eflYaellls
en to which young persons are necemaily subjected.
it it was also important for the sake of its substantial UMW.
e may be a difference of opinion on to the advantage of emending
a time upon the study of botany ; but there A. one opinion nab
the importance of knowing the names of the plants of which man
o make use, or which he is continually meeting with. There is
it the prevent day a portion of any intelligence, ignorant of such
who does not regret that AMC portion of his youth should not
• been devoted to this kind of inquiry.
e Doreetshire gentleman who put himself to ooneiderable trouble
on
email expense to carry a sack of Hornbeam ems! from Florence
onclun, would have been saved the exertion had he known that
Hoenbeam grew in abundance on his own rotate; and it mar be
y averted that every one of that celebrated court party which
mend a prodigy in the beautiful tree in Windsor Park, would
been glad If their emiy education had sputa them the mortiflem
of imraing from Lord N. that the tree in qtaution was only the
dith Chestnut.
lateen. the future intentions of a student of botany may be, it is
rpm...able that the fin t sure to be taken should be that of raining
equaintance with the common ululate of his own country. In the
see of that, he cannot make a single move in Advance. He must
master the rudiments of the perm*, and moister them correctly.
little book tam been prepared for the purpose of enabling him to
o. It contains all that it is necessary to know in order to make a
beginning. and it inelliderno more ; aothat if any one should ham
foal enoe to master the whole contents of the volume, he would
be in a proration to carry his inquiries onwards with ewe. But it
of really necessary to become acquainted with all the plants here
otioned.
he mom why so many species are introduced, which are of email
co-ante, is to enable the teacher to obtain at least some part of
n to illustrate his teaching. Local circumstances, and especially
uncertain mesa., will always render it difficult to procure every
g here mentioned ; but no conceivable eircumetancs can, in thin
ntry, offer impediments to the examination of a large part.
it selecting the eubjects with which the etudeet is to be made
sainted, those have been generally chosen which are within any
is reach ; and to render the acquisition of them more rosy, the
ear names arc added. A very small eum of money will enable
ry schoolmaster to cultivate the whole in a garden, where they
y be constantly at hand.
n framing the technical characters of genera and ',peck., all the
re minute distinctions, the detection of which require. the aid of a
;roesipe, here been intentionally disregarded ; and attention Is mom
acidly called to them which are obvious enough to be observed by
one having a pocket lens.
chart of the European natural orders I regard as the "pris-
m,' will be apparent, from the prominence given here to mends
oral orders beyond others. The teacher is not, however, moms
oiled altogether to omit those which are stated to be comparatively
important. The wisest course will be to make the students
irmiehly acquainted, in the Bret instance, with the natural orders
Lich are marked from I. to LX XIII., and then to explain more
:efly the differences of those to which no nwnbere are prefixed.
In emelmion, the teacher is particularly recommended to take care
it. in addition to a small penknife, each student iA prorated with a
chit ens of about a half-inch focus, and a few quires of paper ;
e former to await him in examining, and the latter in drying, the
oh specimens of plants daily brought before him. There in no
ethod so certain as the latter, to accustom young wrens to eeti.
ate correctly the differences between one plant and another; and,
is jimmied, no one will think of teaching Botany, without an
ople supply of fresh specimens, which be may distribute among
Mae, for the montane of being examined arid studied at leisure.
Me
d, it is ores, to study botany, unless this prim Minn is made
r the acquisition of those habit of obeervetion which render
'tore history so peculiarly useful as a branch of mental training.
When student do not enjoy the advantages of a competent
aches, their best plan will be to put this, book into the hands of an
Millicent gardener, and to induce him to furnish them weekly with
le planks that are named in it. At borne they can compare the
Anita-ins which they may and with the plant tlemeelves, and this
cot of practim is, of all others, the most certain to lead to edem-
a.. result.
boric of the woodcuts employed in the fleet edition have been
armored on this occasion. Experience shown that, for purposes
teaching, it is MlLimenvable that ue much accuracy as is ettaimble
noun be ',tamed in preparing the illmtratimm. To the untrained
Te, plants are too much alike in reality; executed, or much
uninished, woodcuts increase this resemblance, and consequently
altlex move than instruct. The cute now employed w ill, it is
lad, render It impniedble that any mistake shoukl be made by
van the most ieexperienced as to the plants to which they belong.
be facilities, indeed, offered to artists by Mr. Palmer'* Glypho-
aphis perrere, or analogous modes of engraving, which have been
hefty employed on this oceseion, leave little to desire on the score
of uxorial%
Unirmity College, London.

COI.
rria I.—OP PLANTS IMM T.
N GENERAL

11.—CLARsEs oP PLANTE.
11L—OF TIIE sUBDIVisioNS OF EXOGENS.
IV.—OP TIIALAMIFLORAL EXOOENS.
V.—OF CALYCIFLORAL 'MOGEN&
COROLLIFLOKAL EXOGEKKA
VIL—OF AIONOCHLARITIOROUS EXOGF.NS.
VII,—OF ehI,O4ENS.
Ft.—OF CRTFITXMAIR, or ACROCIFSS.
Ermfbary & Whitely nu.