HANDBOOK 



OF 



PRACTICAL BOTANY 



FOE THE BOTANICAL LABOEATOEY AND 

 PEIVATE STUDENT 



BY 



DK. E. STEASBURGER 



PROFESSOR OF BOTANY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF BONN 



TRANSLATED AND EDITED FROM THE GERMAN 



WITH MANY ADDITIONAL NOTES 



BY 



W. HILLHOUSE, M.A., RL.S. 



PROFESSOR OF BOTANY AND VEGETABLE PHYSIOLOGY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF 



BIRMINGHAM; FORMERLY SCHOLAR OF TRINITY COLLEGE, 



LECTURER IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, AND TO GIRTON AND 



NEWNHAM COLLEGES 



FIFTH EDITION. REWRITTEN AND ENLARGED 

 WITH 150 ORIGINAL AND A FEW ADDITIONAL ILLUSTRATIONS 



LONDON: 

 SWAN SONNENSCHEIN & CO., LIMITED 



NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN CO. 

 1900 



