2i 6 Morphology and Systematic Botany. 



during the last twenty years to a complete revolution in the 

 views entertained with respect to the nature of these organisms, 

 and enriched botany with a series of surprising achievements ; 

 and the movement there is still far from having come to an end. 

 But we must regard it as one of the great results for the whole 

 science that through the examination of the lower and higher 

 Cryptogams, morphology and systematic botany have been 

 rescued from many ancient prejudices, that the survey has 

 become freer, the methods of investigation surer, the questions 

 more clearly seen and put in more definite form. 



