Withering's British Plants
Withering's British Plants

Author: William Macgillivray

Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com

Published: 2012-05

Total Pages: 636

ISBN-13: 9781458950901

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: INTRODUCTORY INSTRUCTIONS, ADAPTED FOR PERSONS COMMENCING THE STUDY OF BOTANY. PREFATORY REMARKS. Botant is a progressing science, which, were it perfected, would enable us to become acquainted with the numerous and diversified vegetable productions with which the Author of Nature has adorned the surface of our globe. These objects, although possessed of life, have a constitution, in some respects, very different from that of animals, and their investigation in this point of view is extremely interesting; but the sole object of the present work being to facilitate the acquisition of a knowledge of the plants indigenous to Great Britain and Ireland, the reader is referred for an account of the anatomy and physiology of vegetables to the various recent works which treat entirely or in part of those subjects. Here he will find chiefly that kind of elementary knowledge only which will enable him to discover the name of a plant, and by directing his attention to its external form, excite in him a desire to extend his investigation to its internal structure, its relations, and its uses in the economy of nature. When he has rendered himself familiar with the outward appearance of species and their arrangement into genera, he may proceed to a more ultimate examination of them, and thus acquire a knowledge of the principles by which they are grouped into natural families. Let no one imagine that, when he has become familiar with the aspect of a plant, learned its name, and observed its place of growth and time of flowering, he knows all that is interesting in its history. But before the student has submitted to a careful examination half of the plants described in the following catalogue, he will become aware of the ultimate objects of botanical study; and as it is impossible f...

Withering's British Plants
Withering's British Plants

Author: William Macgillivray

Publisher: Palala Press

Published: 2016-05-23

Total Pages: 516

ISBN-13: 9781358710506

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