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Descriptive Botany: A Practical Guide to the Classification of Plants, with a Popular Flora is a comprehensive guide to the study of plants, written by Eliza Ann Youmans and first published in 1885. The book is designed to help readers understand the classification and identification of plants, including their structure, growth habits, and reproductive processes. The guide is divided into two parts. The first part provides an introduction to the study of botany, including an overview of plant anatomy, physiology, and ecology. It also covers the principles of plant classification, including the use of keys and the identification of plant families. The second part of the book is a popular flora, which provides detailed descriptions of over 1,000 plant species found in North America. Each entry includes information on the plant's physical characteristics, habitat, and distribution, as well as its uses and medicinal properties. The flora is organized according to the Linnaean system of classification, making it easy for readers to navigate and identify plants. Descriptive Botany is a valuable resource for students, botanists, and anyone interested in the study of plants. Its clear and concise descriptions, along with its detailed illustrations, make it an accessible and informative guide to the world of botany.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
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By the common practice of the schools, pupils often go through the botanical text-books with only the most incidental attention to the real objects of study. As there is no training in observation, there can be no attempt at the exercise of the reason and judgment of the learner upon the results of observation. To attain this important end, botany must be studied in its actual objects. The characters of plants must become familiarly known by the detailed and repeated examination and accurate description of large numbers of plants. The pupil must proceed step by step in this preliminary work digesting his observations, and making the facts his own. From the beginning he will be engaged in comparing his observations, and reasoning upon his facts. As he extends his knowledge, the work of comparison and grouping calls for a higher exercise of thought. In the final classification of plants, problems of increasing complexity arise. Plants are to be placed in groups subordinate to each other, when judged by masses of resemblances, by likenesses, and differences of unequal values, which involve the exercise of the best powers of the mind. That the habit of systematic arrangement, in which the study of botanical classification affords so admirable a training, is equally valuable in methodizing all the results of thought, is testified to as a result of his own experience by that eminent authority, Mr. John Stuart Mill. He was a regular field botanist, and cultivated the subject with a view to its important mental advantages. In the second volume of hisS ystem of Logic Mr. Mill says :A lthough the scientific arrangements of organic nature afford as yet the only complete example of the true principles of rational classification, whether as to the formation of groups or of series, these principles are applicable to all cases in which mankind are called upon to bring the
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Descriptive Botany: A Practical Guide To The Classification Of Plants, With A Popular Flora (1885)
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Kessinger Publishing, 2010
ISBN 10: 1164619489
ISBN 13: 9781164619482
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