APPENDIX II 



PRACTICAL NOTES FOR A BOTANICAL COURSE. 



The following notes are intended to enable the beginner 

 to study botany on the lines suggested in these volumes 

 i^oide Preface and Plan) with little or no appeal to a teacher. 

 There are apparently many would-be botanists to-day who 

 prefer such a method to the more orthodox means of in- 

 struction by syllabi. These notes make no claim to be 

 exhaustive nor ideal, and are intended to assist those who 

 prefer, or are obliged, to work by themselves. At the same 

 time the notes should prove suggestive for those who wish 

 to take a regular course in the schools at a later stage, or 

 for actual school use. 



Again it should be emphasised that the primary aim of this 

 work is to enable the beginner to master botanical principles 

 by studying British plants in the field, commencing with 

 systematic botafiy, or identification, and a thorough acquaint- 

 ance with species. The material thus recognised, or similar 

 species, may then be studied from the more detailed bio- 

 logical life-history poifit of view. It is for this reason that 

 some notes on this head are given under each species, with 

 a view to stimulating interest in this direction. Space limits 

 have precluded the inclusion of many of the other features 

 referred to in the Introduction which all form part of the 

 life-history. 



A knowledge of ecology, or plant formations, acquired in 



