A FOUNDATIONS OF BOTANY 
specimen belongs.! The identification of the species, after 
the genus has been reached, presents no difficulty in a little 
flora like the present one. 
The author does not believe in spending much of the time 
of a class upon identifying species, but would rather recom- 
mend comparative studies of as many plants of a group as 
are accessible, and making these studies thorough enough to 
bring out fully the idea of the family, the genus, and the 
species. The descriptions in this flora may be used as a 
check on the cruder ones which the pupil is first to frame for 
himself. 
1 It will greatly simplify matters if the teacher selects for examination only such 
species as are here described. 
’ 2The teacher will find abundant suggestions for such a course in Spalding’s 
Introduction to Botany, pp. 152-260. 
