CHAPTEK YIL 



SCIENCE IN HER CELLS. 



[The following chapter has been written six years. It was delayed 

 in order to complete the promised clearer analysis of stem-struct- 

 ure ; which, after a great deal of chopping, chipping, and peeling of 

 my oaks and birches, came to reverently hopeless pause. What is 

 here done may yet have some use in pointing out to younger students 

 how they may simplify their language, and direct their thoughts, so 

 as to attain, in due time, to reverent hope.] 



1. THE most generally useful book, to myself, hither- 

 to, in such little time as I have for reading about plants, 

 has been Lindley's ' Ladies' Botany ' ; but the most rich 

 and true I have yet found in illustration, the f Histoire 

 des Plantes,' * by Louis Figuier. I should like those of 

 my readers who can afford it to buy both these books ; 

 the first named, at any rate, as I shall always refer to it 

 for structural drawings, and on points of doubtful classifi- 

 cation ; while the second contains much general knowl- 

 edge, expressed with some really human intelligence and 

 feeling ; besides some good and singularly just history 

 of botanical discovery and the men who guided it. The 

 botanists, indeed, tell me proudly, " Figuier is no author- 



* Octavo : Paris, Hachettc, 1865. 



