VI PREFACE. 



and that something else is wanting. If 

 we examine the mass of introductory 

 books on botany in this light, we shall 

 find them in some cases too elaborate and 

 intricate, in others too obscure and im- 

 perfect : they are also deficient in that 

 very pleasing and instructive part of bo- 

 tany, the anatomy and physiology of 

 plants. There are indeed works, such as 

 Rose's Elements of Botany, and Darwin's 

 Phytologia, with which no such faults can 

 be found. The former is a compendium 

 of Linnaean learning, the latter a store of 

 ingenious philosophy ; but they were de- 

 signed for philosophers, and are not cal- 

 culated for every reader. Linnaeus and 

 his scholars have generally written in La- 

 tin. They addressed themselves to phy- 

 sicians, to anatomists, to philosophers, 

 little thinking that thjeir science would 

 ever be the amusing pursuit of the young, 

 the elegant and the refined, or they would 



