PREFATORY NOTE TO THE ENGLISH 



EDITION 



THIS edition of Professor Goebel's interesting work brings within 

 reach of English students the only book of recent years upon the 

 subject of Organography of Plants, and is a valuable addition to the 

 series of standard botanical books issued from the Oxford Press. 

 Some of the interpretations and views to which Professor Goebel gives 

 expression may not find unqualified acceptance, but the criticisms they 

 will evoke and the experimental research which is sure to be stimulated 

 by the Author's suggestive statement of problems requiring solution 

 should further in no small degree the progress of our knowledge of the 

 phenomena of life exhibited by plants. 



The portion of the Special Part of the Book dealing with the 

 Bryophyta, recently published in Germany, has been translated and will 

 be issued along with a translation of the concluding portion of the volume 

 when this has been completed by the Author. 



Professor Goebel has himself read the English text and added a note. 



My assistants, Mr. J. H. Burrage and Mr. H. F. Tagg, have been so 

 kind as to undertake the labour of checking the references in the volume. 



I. B. B. 



EDINBURGH, 



December, 1898. 



