NEW-WORLD SCIENCE SERIES 



Edited by John W. Ritchie 



SCIENCE 

 OF PLANT LIFE 



A High School Botany 



Treating of the Plant and Its Relation 



to the Environment 



by 



Edgar Nelson Transeati^ Ph.D. 



Professor of Botany^ The Ohio State Uni-versity 



ILLUSTRATED 



•with engra'vingSj diagrams^ and maps 

 and ivith 120 original draivings by 



Robert J. Sim 



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Yonkers-on-Hudson, New York 



WORLD BOOK COMPANY 



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