Excerpt from Vegetable Physiology Systematic Botany Systematic Botany, the author would remark, that the reasons which have induced him to prefer the Natural System to the Linnaan, - the latter having been hitherto almost universally employed in elementary treatises on Botany - will be found fully stated in Chapter XIII. He has not aimed to give an account of every order, since this would have been of very little use to the beginner. In making a selection, he has regarded those as having the best claim to notice, which contain plants of the greatest importance to man, or which present some re markable peculiarities of structure or habit; a few have been introduced, however, which possess neither of these distinctions, either as containing well-known British plants, or on account of their great abundance in parti cular spots of the globe. The Cryptogamia have not been treated of in this. Division of the work, since a general view of their chief groups is contained in Chapter II. About the Publisher 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.