Senior Botany (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Senior Botany

In preparing this book I have used material from Plant Biology, Life Histories of Common Plants, and Botany for Matriculation. From these three works this volume differs, apart from condensation in some places and omission in others - processes necessary to make the book more suitable for the use of students preparing for the Senior Local Examinations of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge - in the preparation of a chapter on climbing, parasitic, and saprophytic plants, and especially in the great expansion of the chapter dealing with the Ecology of Plants. This important and interesting subject receives here, indeed, more adequate treatment than in any other work on Elementary Botany with which I am acquainted.

The essence of good teaching in Elementary Botany is to bring the student into the closest personal contact with the fundamental facts of the science. Accordingly I have inserted a large number of experiments, but as some teachers may find that the time which their classes can devote to the subject does not allow them to work through all the experiments here given, those experiments which are of fundamental importance and would in themselves form a fair first course in Practical Elementary Botany are indicated with an asterisk. So far as possible, however, the sections dealing with germination and with the examination of typical plants, the latter being given chiefly in Chapters IX. to XVI., should be carefully worked through.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com