INTltODUCTOKY NOTE. 



zealous student who wishes to fathom all the 

 mysteries of Botany must needs have scientific 

 hand-books, drawn up with a careful regard to perfect 

 accuracy, and containing in systematic order the out- 

 lines of his science. The general reader, and especially 

 youths, on the other hand, require to be enticed by 

 more attractive and popular works. The following 

 pages are intended to be such an introduction to the 

 Science of Botany. The author has selected some of 

 the most wonderful plants of the vegetable kingdom, 

 and the most remarkable phenomena connected with 

 them, which cannot fail to interest. In issuing the 

 work in English, care has been taken to secure scien- 

 tific accuracy, and to bring the work up to a recent date. 



