6 GENERAL BOTANY 



as the Mango, Palm, Cotton plant, Tobacco plant, 

 Wheat and Paddy ; the second group includes Ferns, 

 Mosses, and practically every minute green or colour- 

 less living body that does not move about as an animal 

 does. It is of the first of these two groups, the 

 flowering plants, that we shall deal in this book, and 

 only in their external appearance ; for the study of 

 their internal structure and of the flowerless plants 

 requires the use of a compound microscope and should 

 properly be taken afterwards. 



