Trees, Vol. 2: A Handbook of Forest-Botany for the Woodlands and the Laboratory (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from Trees, Vol. 2: A Handbook of Forest-Botany for the Woodlands and the Laboratory

The leaf 18 the most plastic of all the organs of the plant, and it is by no means sufficient for the Forest student to know the mere shapes of ordinary leaves he Ought to be familiar with the principal varieties, and especially with the metamorphoses which leaves undergo, and it is hardly too much to say that he who really understands the conformation and adaptations of the leaf, holds the key to the morphology of the higher plants. It is for this reason that I have entered into some matters which may at first sight appear foreign to the purpose of the work as a whole.

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Excerpt from Trees, Vol. 2: A Handbook of Forest-Botany for the Woodlands and the Laboratory

The present volume, the second of the series, is devoted to a close study of the external features of the leaves of our woodland plants, especially from the point of view of the morphological characters which are found to be of systematic value. At the same time, I have incorporated such information regarding the anatomical and microscopic structure, and the functions of the typical leaf, as may enable a student familiar with elementary Botany, or even the beginner, to understand something of the marvellous powers displayed by this complex machine in breaking up the carbon-dioxide of the air and building it up into organic substances which serve as the principal food of the plant organism.

The leaf is the most plastic of all the organs of the plant, and it is by no means sufficient for the Forest student to know the mere shapes of ordinary leaves: he ought to be familiar with the principal varieties, and especially with the metamorphoses which leaves undergo, and it is hardly too much to say that he who really understands the conformation and adaptations of the leaf, holds the key to the morphology of the higher plants. It is for this reason that I have entered into some matters which may at first sight appear foreign to the purpose of the work as a whole.

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

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.