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introduce the student to their 

 study. For further details, 

 he is referred to De Bary's 

 admirable treatise, " Ver- 

 gleichende Anatomie der 

 Vegetationsorgane der Phau- 

 erogamen und Fame," in 

 which copious references are 

 given. The publications of 

 JUT- Russow will also be found to 

 > o be of great value to the stu- 

 | dent. 



ll 549. The systematic 

 1 1 arrangement of the An- 

 u^ giosperms is by no means 

 fcjj settled. The one mostly 

 K, r | followed in England and 

 s r .S this country is a modifi- 

 S _.S cation of De Candolle's 

 system (A.D. 1813), 

 which was itself a modi- 

 fication of Jussieu's (A.D. 

 1789), which in turn was 

 based upon the general 

 system proposed by Ray 

 (A.D. 1703). In the 

 "Genera Plantarum," 

 now publishing by Ben- 

 thani and Hooker, and 

 in the English edition of 

 Lc Maoutand Decaisne's 

 " General System of Bot- 

 any," we have the most 

 recent modifications of 

 the Candollean system. 

 On the continent of Eu- 

 rope other systems have 

 been used more or less, 

 and it is probable that 

 gj; among these are to be 

 .L h | found the best groupings 

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