WOOD'S CLASS-BOOK OF BOTANY. 



CROCKER & BREWSTER, BOSTON, 



HAVE JUST PUBLISHED 



QV ^lass-Book of Botaurj, 



DESIGNED FOR 



COLLEGES, ACADEMIES, AND OTHER SEMINARIES. 



PART I.— The Elements of Botanical Science. 



PART II.— Tlie Katural Orders, illustrated by a Flora of the Nortli- 



ern United States, or of tlie United States nortli of the Capital, 



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By ALPHONSO WOOD, A.M. 



The peculiarities of this new ■work, which adapt it to the use of schools, families, and of bota- 

 nists senerally at the present day, are as follows : — 



1. It exhibits, clearly and concisely, the Science of Botany, as it is understood at the present 

 time, witli all those beautiful discoveries resulting from the recently adopted theory of the 

 " transformation of leaves into the floral organs." 



2. It contains a.fuU Flora of a limited section of country, viz., of the United States north of the 

 latitude of Washington, D. C. 



3. The species of Plants ai-e described accurately and minutely, in order to their complete 

 recognition. 



4. The former drudgery of botanic analysis, necessary in every other School Botany, is 

 wholly obviated in this work by a new system of Analytical Tables, near two hundred in num- 

 ber, prepared with great labor and care, by means of which, the pupil is able to turn to the 

 place and name of cin unknown plant with about the same facihty as he turns to a word in a 

 dictionary. 



5. The Elements of the Science and the Flora are both embraced in one volume, of a price so 

 Jdw as places it within the means of every pupil. 



The following recommendations have been received ; — viz : 



From Prof. Emmons, of Williams College. 



I am highly gratified that at last we have an excellent Class-Book of 

 Botany, by Mr. Wood. We have been almost obliged to abandon the 

 study of Botany in our Colleges and Academies for several years, in 

 consequence of the want of a suitable work as a text-book for students. 

 In this work of Mr. Wood, we have a desideratum supplied, certainly 

 excellent, with an arrangement beautifully simple, and even elegant, 

 and at the same time exact, so far as I have yet applied it. Though 

 Mr. Wood is personally unknown to me, I shall be extremely well 

 pleased to see his labors crowned with success, and his book immedi- 

 ately adopted in all our institutions where Botany is taught. 



EBENEZER EMMONS, 



Prof, of Natural History in Williams College, 



and in the Albany Medical College. 



From. Messrs. Peck, Newman, and Wentwortk, of Troy Conference Academy. 



Wood's Botany evidently embodies more traits of excellence and 

 usefulness than any one of the various elementary treatises in general 

 use. In some of these, the preliminary principles of the science are 

 unduly expanded ; from others, they are nearly or quite excluded. Mr. 

 Wood's work combines a concise and lucid exposition of primary prin- 

 ciples, wiih ample illustrations of the science, drawn from the Flora of 

 our own immediate section. We have adopted it as a text-book in 

 Troy Conference Academy. 



JESSE T. PECK, Principal. 



JOHN NEWMAN, Teacher of Mathematics. 



E. WENTWORTH, Teacher of Nat. Science. 



