

THE STORY OF PLANT LIFE 



IN THE BRITISH ISLES 



VOLUME II 

 INTRODUCTION 



I. Divisions of the Subject. 



THE facts of botany, like those of zoology, or 

 other branches of science, are capable of 

 reduction to an orderly arrangement, and it is well 

 that this is so, for the rapid accumulation of new 

 data day by day makes it incumbent upon both the 

 specialist and the general student to limit his or her 

 activities to some one section of the subject. 



Treated generally, botany is part of the study of 

 biology, geology, including palaeontology, and zoo- 

 logy being the other branches. Biology means the 

 study of living organisms, their form, structure, 

 «:f function, life-history, and evolution. 



The study of the forms of plants is implied in the 



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