The Express.
London, England, 1846-11-10 00:00:00

NEW EDITION of LINDLEY'S SCHOOL BOTANY.

In dem,' tiro, price Se. 6d.,
SCHOOL BOTANY
Or, the RUDIMENTS ot BOTANICAL SCIENCE.

BY JOHN LINDLEY, PALM, P. 8.5.,
Professor of Botany in University College, London.
A New Edition : with Numerous Alterations and nearly
Four Hundred Illustrations.
This work was originally prepared, in haste, to meet a regulation
of the University of London, by which It was required o: all students,
that, two years previously to proceeding to their Bret des me, they
should be examined, other subjects, in "The characters and
ellibrences of the prim! natural claws and orders of plants be.
=to the Flora of in the botanical classification of De
The obvious purpose of this regulation was to make young men
age lasted with the names and properdee of the vmetatles that
othrounds them ; so that, after receiving what is trolled a liberal
ithasation, they might not be thrown upon the world, ignorant o
the =men at Teen, of the commonest plants of their own country.
le the 'pietas of the author, the measure was calculated to effect •
:ext.'s.' to supply • wide trap in the common routine of •
it la most desirable the ewes natural history should be
introduced, if It be only to relieve the tedium of the less attractive
studies to which young persons are necessarily subjee.ed.
But it was also important for the sake of Its substantial utility.
There may be a difference of opinion as to the advantage of spending
much time upon the study of botany ; but there Is one oninlon only
as to the importance of knowing the names of the plants of which man
has to make use, or which he is continually meeting with. There is
not at the present day • person of any intelligence, ignorant of such
things, who does net regret that some portion of his youth should not
have been devoted to this kind of inquiry.
The Donets/lire gentleman who put himself to considerable trouble
and no small expense to carry • sack of Hornbeam seed from Florence
to Landon, would have been saved the exertion bad he known that
the Hornbeam grew In abundance on ha own estate; and it may be
sskly asserted that every one of that celebrated court party whith
discovered • prodigy in therly beautiful tree
min Windsorared Park, we
have been glad if their ea education had them the rarithildth.
don of lensing from Lord /L that the tree in question was esili the
ilgrash Maar
Morse, :More
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of a student of botany ses
lallermale the
Mine fret asp le le takes amid be Mt
en
raminlem with the anemen part at his own comay. to the
arm aAM be area mho sight man in admen ile
leet arta rallanente et ate renee. end meter Ira innesft.
~pellletaithrsbarregend lathe germ of mda glrte
Mm a eneaker thialt nemen le know in aria to are •
fyrraming, militadrease ssaste; 'stint if any one
as gram toresatar ar wise mars of the warm la were
ions his Irian Wary halograss onwards with men Dalt
b ast wry romay to berm eardred with all the pima line
The rumen why se egialerahtaodred, Miner ani
lanertmea le to erre the tartar to Mao at ler sem prat
thin to Meslane mehileg. ellsometrer mar,
aQ martan mom amp vender it oineele te ream mem
Wait hems mentlemed; but no esmindie dramehinsre sr In this
couthey. oath thigalliMenta Se the amardlen da Imp pert.
In realsier Ars tie Mar le to be made
have hem perselis drew Mida me rain any
serare= MN to noir Mks et tier are ray, the
vulgar mem Bea added. A wry ik oar of wary A eerie
every sehralmeater to cultivate the Ale be • pram where they
may be othidantly at hand.
finstag the technical ammeters et ram and spear, all the
mon area dietinedom the Mara etratelh sugar be Md of •
mamma Me been intrimarlianaral ; rdirritr brow
rice to thew width are obvious enough to be observed by
an‘rie a pocket Ices.
of European =brat orders I regard es the
Abe apparent, from the pranincesee given bare to certain
natural orders beyond others. 'The mar is not, bows; ream.
meads" altogether to omit throe old* are dated to be semparatively
unimportant. The wisest seem will be to math the Andean
normally aegoeinted, in the Ire insane% ugh the Mural sedan
white re raised from L to LIAM., sal bus to agar war
bar/ the Ilikelefil of Mee brat ne ambers ure reined.
In wroarlen. be teeshorlegertiadaly resomeried to take ars
that, to oillties
Mto satoma mirk ear Mir is provided with •
pocket ithe el a liefeens, or tew quires et paper ;
the tomer to seer tearmairegi eel the Wier in dna& the
fresh sadasem of plots Ay Mere bare bles. Tiara no
method so certain as the kWh to renasen wag palms to rod.
mate correctly the diagram between re srl- mar ;
it is presumed, no the will Mr d trateg Deasy wilfwat en
ample supply of tea sipainsok whisk he wair Mon
his class, for the prim of king emelned and Maar lima
Indeed, it is user to seedy botany, rims Me yeroviden leseede
for the acquisition et bee baits of ebeernden whisk render
natural Wd so yeedierty reed es •MA et amid tribe.
When imal de net Wry the adman. et • empetent
teacher, UM bat yin A be to pat this book Me the bride of an
Intelligent pinkair, sr Mann Ides to tssi& Um vary with
the plants bad ere emsd WAR At lore day am
_mown the
definitions which they my and via the Ares ameseass, and this
kind of prank* la, of all Awe, the met arra to had to advan-
tageous were.
Nese of the weadente employed be the first edition have been
irthednesd es ale wassion. Experience show' that, for purposes
dining, it
_lndispensable that as muck accuracy as is attainable
aimii lereerwa in preparing the ilhaltrelloos. To the untrained
ma, plants are Ins muck alike in reality; ILI executed, or much
diminialsedoroothele inenme this illmoe and consequently
perplex mom then thebreet. The cuts now employed will, it is
hoped, rarer in Imerade trot any rare should be made by
even the met theepodeteni se to the plants to which they belong.
The facilities treat, Aral te MIAs by Mr. Palmer's Glyph°.
graphic proem, or analogous modes of =craving which have been
chiefly employed on this occasion, leave little to on the score
of accuracy.
University College, London.
cowmen.
Case= I.—OP PLANTS IN GENERAL.
IL—CLASSES OP PLANTS.
THE SUBDIVISIONS OF EXOGENS.
IV.—OP THALAMIFLOBAL EXOGENS.
V.—OF CALYCIFLORAL EXOGENS.
COBOLLIFLOBAL EXOGENS.
MONOCHIA.MTDEOUS EXOGENS.
TILL —OF ENDOGENS.
I.X.—OF CRYPTOGAMS, or ACROGENS.
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