Elements of Plant Science

A GOOD, tight copy. PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED with black-and-white drawings and photographs with accompanying descriptive captions. From the author's Preface: "This book is an introduction to the study of plants. As far as it seems advisable, technical terms have been avoided; but we have tried to make the treatment scientific and necessary technical terms have been introduced with a definition and, generally, with an illustration. The subject matter is arranged to meet the needs of schools which devote only one semester to the study of plants, and of schools which have a whole year of botany." Part I: Structures and Functions of Seed Plants (8 Chapters): The Leaf; The Stem; The Root; The Flower; The Fruit; The Seed; Various Important Topics; Laboratory Studies. Part II.Development of Plants From the Lowest to the Highest (10 Chapters): Thallophytes-Algae; Thallophytes (Continued)-Fungi; Bryophytes-Liverworts; Bryophytes (Continued)-Mosses; Pteridophytes-Lycopods; Horsetails (Equisetum); Pteridophytes-Ferns; Spermatophytes. Seed Plants-Gymnosperms; Spermatophytes.Seed Plants (Continued) Angiosperms; Laboratory Methods. 394 pages. GG1. …