The elements of botany, structural, physiological, systematicl, and medical. Being a fifth edition of the Outline of the first principles of botany. With a sketch of the artificial methods of classification and a glossary of technical terms / By John Lindley.

  • Lindley, John, 1799-1865.
Date:
1847
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    however interesting and important it may be, has no obvious bearing upon Vegetable Physiology, when carried beyond what is taught in the following pages. The theory of Spiral Structure, which is wholly omitted, does not affect any question which students are interested about; in like manner, the obscure and disputed phenomena of Vegetable Fertilization, of Irritability and other vital actions, of the little modifications discoverable among seeds and fruits, the structure of Cryptogams, belong to a class of facts which can only be dealt with by those who have advanced beyond the state of pupilage. To the latter may be recommended the Introductions to Botany which are named in another page, among which a vast quantity of Botanical details will be found collected. In the last edition the Author introduced an abridged account of the modes of classification adopted among Botanists, and of the medical properties of plants. These being now treated of partly in “ School Botany,” and very fully in the “ Vegetable Kingdom,” it has been deemed unnecessary again to include them, with the exception of the two artificial arrangements, the Linnsean and Analytical. In their place is given a Glossary of the technical terms generally employed among Botanical writers, and a very considerable addition to the Wood-cuts formerly employed. University College, London, April, 1847.