Flowers of the field / by C.A. Johns.

  • Johns, C. A. (Charles Alexander), 1811-1874.
Date:
1894
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Flowers of the field / by C.A. Johns. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INTRODUCTION TO BRITISH BOTAN Y. CHAPTER I. EXPLANATION OF TERMS. Though tlie highest claim of this volume is to intro- duce the lover of Nature to an acquaintance with the common British plants, the Author has given to his first Chapter the somewhat presuming title of an ‘■‘■Intro- duction to British Botanylest those into whose hands the work may fall should pass over the earlier part of it as a treatise or summary of contents so little connected with what follows, that the perusal of it may be omitted or deferred with safety. So far is this from being the case, that the reader who is unacquainted with the ele- ments of botany will find the body of the work of little use, unless he carefully peruses the earlier pages, and makes himself thoroughly acquainted with the general plan. The limits of a work of this kind will not allow any account of the internal structure of plants, or of the functions of their various organs. Nor, indeed, is such description necessary in a work which professes merely to teach the unscientific how to find out the names of the flowers they may happen to fall in with in the course of their country rambles. Such a knowledge of plants as this, it may be said, and said with truth, is not Botany ; nevertheless, it is a step towards Botany : for there can be no doubt that scientific treatises on this subject would often be studied with pleasure, if the