Excerpt from Foundations of Botany

This book is written upon the same plan as the author"s of Elements of Botany. A few chapters stand here but little altered from the former work, but most of them have been rewritten and considerably enlarged, and many new ones have been added. The principal changes in the book as a whole are these:

1. Most of the discussion of ecological topics is put by itself, in Part II.

2. The amount of laboratory work on the anatomy and physiology of seed-plants is considerably increased and additional experiments are introduced.

3. The treatment of spore-plants is greatly extended, so as to include laboratory work on the most important groups.

4. The meagre Flora which accompanied the earlier book has been replaced by one which contains fairly full descriptions of nearly seven hundred species of plants. Most of these are wild, but a considerable number of cultivated species have been included, mainly for the convenience of schools in large cities.

Ample material is offered for a year"s course, four or five periods per week. The author is well aware that most schools devote but half a year to botany, but the tendency sets strongly toward allowing more time for this subject. Even in schools where the minimum time allowance is devoted to botany, there is a distinct advantage in being provided with a book which allows the teacher considerable option as regards the kind and amount of work which he shall offer to his classes.

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