GRAMMAR 



OF 



BOTANY, 



CHAPTER I. 



SUBJECT. 



1. Botany teaches the knowledge of Plants, ei- 

 ther, 1, with respect to their characters and dis- 

 tinctions; 2, their structure and the uses of their 

 several parts; or 3, their various qualities with 

 regard to mankind, and the brute creation. 



2. The 1st is called Systematical, the 2d Physiolo- 

 gical, and the 3d Economical Botany. 



3. Systematical Botany is founded on a knowledge of 

 the external structure of plants, and the different 

 forms under which their various parts and organs 

 appear. By this we are enabled to distinguish one 

 species of plant from another, as well as to assem- 

 ble or arrange them in families, orders or classes. 



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