N EW-WORLB SCIENCE SERIES 



Edited by John W. Ritchie 



GENERAL BOTANY 



AN INTRODUCTORY TEXT FOR 



COLLEGES AND ADVANCED CLASSES 



IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS 



by 



Edgar Nelson Transeau 



Professor of Botany, The Ohio State University 

 ILLUSTRATED 



Tonkers-on-Hudson, New York 



WORLD BOOK COMPANY 



1924 



