STRUCTURAL BOTANY. 



I. 



INTRODUCTION. 



A. DEFINITIO]^ OF BOTANY. 



1. Botany is the science which treats of the structure 

 of plants, the functions of their organs, their places of 

 growth, their classification, and the terms which are em- 

 ployed in their description and denomination. 



B. BRANCHES OF BOTANY. 



2. Botany is divided in two cardinal hrancJies — Theo- 

 retical and Pkactical. 



3. Theoretical Botany treats of plants without re- 

 gard to their utility or hurtfulness. It is divided into, 1. 



Yegetahle Or^ganography / 2. Yegetahle Physiology ; and, 

 3. Sjpecial or Systematic Botany. 



4. Organography, also called Terminology, or Gene- 

 ral Botany, treats of the terms employed by the botanist 

 to designate the several parts of plants, or to describe their 

 form. 



