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NEW EDITION of LINDLEY'S SCHOOL BOTANY.

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SCHOOL BOTANY
Or,the RUDIMENTS of BOTANICAL SCIENCE.
Be JOIDI LINDLEY, P.H.D., F.R.8.,
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 mast a regulation
of the University of London, by which it was required of all students,
that, two years previously to proceeding to their first degree, they
should be examined, among other subjects, In "The deereeters and
differences of the principal natural classes and ordms of *an be-
=to the Flora of Europe, in the botanical WeeMee of De
e."
The To
purpose of this regulation was to make rang men
acquainted with the names and properties the vegetation that
surrounds them; so that, after receiving whatof is caned a liberal
education, they might not be thrown upon the world, ignore= of
the names, at least, of the commonest plena of their own emierg.
In the opinion of the author, the messes wee indestehed to gab a
real good, and to supply a wide gap in be mom Tebbe at a
school, where it is moat desirable eat sem embed bblany aleski he
introduced, if it be only to reline the to of the inn atlesetive
studies to which yam( peretmome neeenselli eolgeeled.
But it we oleo beperbst for the wee of tb ookelentiel
There nety be a Moose of egbien is to the tibminge et menbag
week tine apes the study of botan but then le ems Irleft eddy
as to the imporbeeee Imowbß thermbed the InW et whith ben
Ate to mho maa or *bah Ins 1111111111,
sot at the puma deg a pees= at wry tof emit
things, who den set regret that some portion of hie youth should not
have been devoted to this kind of inquiry.
The Dorseeshire gentleman who put himself to considerable trouble
and no small expeme to carry a sack of Hornbeam seed from Florence
to London, would have been saved the exertion had he known that
the Hornbeam grew in abundance on his own estate; and it may be
wifely 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 =tired them the mortifica-
tion of learning from Lord M. that the tree in question was only the
Spanish Chestnut.
Whatever the future intentions of a student of botany may be, it Is
indispensable that the fir:A step to be taken should be that of gaining
an acquaintance with the common plants of I, 'a own country. In the
absence of that, be cannot make a single move in advance. Ile must
first master the rudiment. of the science, and meter them correctly.
This little took has been prepared for the purport of enabling him to
do so. It contains all that it is necessary to know In coder to make a
fair beginning, and it includes no more ;so that If nee should hew
the patience to master the whole contents of the volatibe, he weld
then be in a position to carry his inquiries onwards with ease. But it
in not really necessary to become acquainted with all the plants hem
mentioned.
The reason why so many species are Introduced,
which are of nab
importance, is to enable the teacher to obtain at least Ism part et
them to illustrate his teaching. Local circumstances, sad ampadiay
our uncertain seasons, will always render it difficult to procure even
thing here mentioned; but no conceivable eircuntrtances can, in this
country, offer impediments to the examination of a large part.
In selecting the subjects with which the strident is to be madeacquainted,
acquainted, those have been generally charm which are within say
man's reach ; and to render the acquisition of them more easy, the
vulgar names are added. A very small sum of money will enable
every schoolmaster to cultivate the whole in a garden, where they
may be constantly at hand.
In framing the technical characters of genera and species, all the
more minute distinctions, the detection of which requires the aid of a
microscope, have been intentionally disregarded: and attention lama
especially tailed to those which are obvious enough to be observed by
any one having a pocket lens.
Which of the European natural orders regard se the " prin-
cipal," will be apparent, from the prominence given here to certain
natural orders beyond others. The teacher is not, however, recom-
mended altogether to omit those which are stated to be comparatively
unimportant. The wisest course will be to make the students
thoroughly acquainted, In the first instance, with the natural orders
which are marked from I. to LX XIII., and then to explain more
briefly the difference of those to which no numbers are prefixed.
In conclusion, the teacher is particularly recommended to take ease
that, in addition to a small pen knife, each student is provided with a
pocket lens of about a half-inch focus, and a few quires of paper ;
the former to =in him in examining, and the latter in drying the
flesh specimens of plant. dally brought before him. There is no
method so certain as the latter, to accustom young persons to esti-
mate correctly the differences between one plant and another; and,
it is presumed, no one will think of teaching Botany, without an
ample supply of fresh specimens, which he may distribute among
his elms, for the purpose of being examined and studied at leisure.
Indeed, ft Is useless to study botany, unless this provision is made
for the acquisition of those habits of oteervation which render
natural history so peculiarly useful as a branch of mental training.
When students do not enjoy the advantages of a competent
teacher, their hest Man will le 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 find with the plants themselves, and this
kind of practice is, oe all others, the most certain to lead to advan-
tageous results.
None of the woodcuts employed in the first edition ve been
introduced on this occasion. Experience shows that, forha purposes
of teaching, it is indispensable that as much accuracy as is attainable
should be observed in preparing the illustrations. To the untrained
eye, plants are too much alike in reality ; executed, or much
dminished, woodcum increase this reeemblance, and consequently
=ll,l more than instruct. The cuts now employed will, it is
render it impossible that any mistake should be made by
even the most inexperienced as to the plants to which they belong.
The facilities, indeed, offered to artists by Mr. Palmer's Glypho-
graphic proems, or analogous modes of engraving, which have been
chiefly employed on this occasion, leave little to desire on the score
of areuracy.
Urtiveresty College, London.
CONTINTS.
Cabbie L—OF PLANTS IN GENERAL.
IL—CLASSES OF PLANTS.
lII.—OF THE SUBDIVISIONS OP EXOOENS.
VIV.—OF THALAMIFLOR AL EXOGENS.
. CALYCIFLORAL EXOGENS.
VI.—OF COROLLIFLORAL F.XOOF.NS.
VIL—OF MONOCHLAMYDEOUS EXOGENS.
VLIL—OF E.N DOGENS.
IL—OF CRY PTOGAMS. or ACROGENS.
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