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THE VEGETABLE KINGDOM;
-a. Or, the STRUCTURE, CLASSIFICATION, end USES of
PLANTS. illustrated upon the Natural System.
By JOILN LLSDLEV, Ph. I)., P.R.S., and LS., Professor of Botany
in the University of Loudon, and in the Royal Institution of Great
Britain.
"No work more Important to the shekel la botany hao ewe
appeared; for is the prolbrient in tbst bran* of *lady te cantabis
an imniense mass of useful information."—London Journal of Botany,
No. 52.
" We as our readers that it contains a vast quantity of matter
interesting and useftil to many classes of persica, and to none more
so than to Phan:meet:list% 63 whom we strongly and cordially
recommend it."—Pharmaecutieni Journal, No. 10.
~* To suit the convenience of student+ and others, the above work
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SCHOOL BOTANY;
Or, the RUDIMEN"TIi of BOTANICAL SCIENCE.
Br JOHN LINDLEY, PILL., F.R.8.,
Proletenrof Botany in Cnieersity College, London.
A New Edition : with Numerous Alterations and nearly
Four Hundred Illustrations. . .

This work was originally prepared, ia haste, to meet a regulation
of the University of London, by which it was required of all student",
that, two years previously to proceeding to their first degree, they
should be examiued, among other subj.-eta, in "The characters and
differences of the principal natural cies," and orders of plants be-
longing to the klora of Burope, In the botanical claraillication of lie
Candolle."
The obvious purpose of this regulation WWI to make young men
acquainted with the mums and properties of the vegetation that
surrounds them; so that, after receiving what is called a liberal
education, they might not be thrown upon the world, ignorant of
the names, at least, of the commonest plants of their own country.
In the opinion of the author, the measure was eileulated to effect a
real good, and to supply a wide gap in the common routine of a
school, where it is most desirable that some natural history should be
introducsd, If It be only to relieve the tedium of the less attractive
studies ta which young persons are necessarily subjected.
But it was also important for the rake 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 opinion only
• as to the importance of knowing the names of the plants of which man
has to make ow, or which he is continually meeting with. There is
not at the present day a person of any Multipolar, ignorant of such
things, who does not regret that some portion of his youth should not
have been devoted to this kind of inquiry.
The Dorsetahire gentleman wh a put himself to considerable trouble
and no small expense to carry a sack of Hornbeam seed Irma Florence •
to London, would have been saved the exertion had he 'mown that
the Hornbeam grew in abundance on his min estate; and it may be
safely asserted that every one of that celebrated court party which
discovered a prodigy in the beautiful tree In Windsor Park, would
have been glad if their early education had spared them the mortifica-
tion of learning from Lord M. that the tree in question was only the
Spanich Chestnut.
Whatever the future intentions of a student of botany mut. be, it is
indispensable that the tin t step to be taken should be that of gaming
an acquaintance with the common plants of his own country. In the
absence of that, he cannot make a single move in advance. Ile moat
find mater the rudiments of the science, and master them correctly.
Tats little kook has been prepared karthe purpose if enabling him to
do so. It contains all that it is necessary to know in order to make a
fair beginning, and it Melodeon* more; atothat Hinny one should have
the patience to muter the whole contents of the volunich he would
then be In a position to carry hiainquiries onwards with case. But it
is not really necessary to become acquaint.' with all the plants here
mentioned.
The reason why so many species are introduced, which are of small
importance, is to enable the teacher to obtain at least some part of
them to illustrate his leaching. Local circumstances, sad especially
our uncertain serisawes, will always render It difficult to procure every
thing here mentioned; bat no conceivable circumatancin can, in this
country, offer impedimenta to the examination of a large part
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In selecting the sulge.is with which the studeet is to be made
acquainted, those have been generally cho.,en which are within any
mane reach; and to render the acquisition of them more easy, the
vulgar names are lidded. A very small KUM of money will enable
every schoolmaster to cultivate the whole in a garden, where they
may be constantly at hand.
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In framing the technical character. of genera and spode., all the
more militate: distinctions, the de tortion of which regains the aid of a
microscope, have been intentionally disregarded ; attention in more
especially called to these which arc obvious enough to be observed by
any one having a packet lens.
Which of the European natural orders I regard as the "grin.
eipal," will be apparent, from tho prominence given here to certain
natural order, beyond ethers. The teacher is not, however, recom-
mended altorethir to omit thaw which are stated to be comparatively
unimportant. Tie. wlucat course wiU be to make the students
thoroughly sequainted, in the first instance, with the natural orders
which are marked from I. to LX XIII., and then to explain more
briefly the differences of there to which no !limbers are prefixed.
In conclusion, the teacher in particularly recommended to take care
that, in nrklitlon to a email penknife, etch• student is provided with a
pocket lens of about a half-inch focus, and a few quire+ of paper;
the former to ambit him in examining, and the latter in drying, the
fresh opecimena of picots daily brought before him. There in no
method so certain as the latter, to accustom young persons to esti-
mate correctly the different-co between one plant and another • and,
it is premien...xi, no one will think of teaching Botany, without an
ample supply of fresh opecimeno, which be may distribute among
his class, for the purpose of bring examined and studied at leisure.
Indeeek it is web. to rattily botany, unless thin provision is made
for the acquisition of those habit of observation which render
natural history so pecolidly monad as a branch of mental training,
When otudents do not enjoy the advantages of a competent
teacher, their best plan will be to put this book into the hands of an
intelligent gardener, and to induce him to furnish them weekly with
the plants that are named in it. At home they can compare the
definitions which they may and with the plants themselves,, and this
kind of practice La,- of an other,, the moat certain to lend to advan-
tageous results.
None of the woodcuts employed in the first edition have been
introduced on this omasion. Experience shows that, for purpose.
of teaelttng, It is indispensable that as mush accuracy as is attainable
should be observed ix prer ding the illustrations. to the untrained
eye, plants are too much alike in reality ; ill executed, or much
dmiimiskedorionalcuts increase this reoembiance, and consequently
perplex more thin irstnict. The cuts now employed will, it is
hopes], render it impowible that any mistake should be made by
even the most inexperienced as to the plants to which they belong.
The &Metier% indeed, offered to artists by Mr. Palmer'e GI ho-
graphic proems, or analogous modes of engraving, which have been
chiefly employed on this °session, leave little to desire on the score
of accuracy.
l'airersity Colkgr, Louden,

Cliurrzi I.—OF PLANTSIN GENERAL
IL—CLASSES OP PLAN s.
lIE—OF THE SUBDIVISIONS OF MOGUL
It'.—OF THALAMIYLOBAL EXOOENS.
V.—OF CALYCIFLURAL EXOGENS.
VI,—OF COROLLIFIORAL EXOGENS.
VII.—OF MONOCHLAMTDEOUS MOGEN&
VIII.—OF ENDOGENS.
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