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BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 419 
3. Beginners are put to work substantially upon i 
: the plan in- 
Stas and Martin in their “ Tlopaate of Brology.” 
Bias. Ny <he plants are used from year to year. One teacher 
plants os great favorite for beginning the study of vascu- 
sist oni ie a, hyemale. i% hroughout the course the stu- 
special. deli all of his own preparations except a few that require 
fally coinage of manipulation. Accurate drawings and care- 
oe ate ; escriptions are required and are handed in from 
Beaone sede and suggestions. In this way the work 
be fes scl il the student has acquired a critical knowledge of 
selected from all the leading groups of the vegetable king- 
om. 
Advanced students are then called upon to select some group 
i f flowerless plants 
as ° 7 
needing more aid from the teacher. In the course from whic 
studied, the student mak- 
: tative species, then identi- 
fying fifty or more (generally the parasitic fungi), and finally be- 
of th : as possible with the modern literature 
‘ ae ie The whole object, and ‘+ is an admirable one, is 
aad e that each student learns how to conduct an investigation 
nd use a library. Then follows, if time permits, special inves- 
ty obi in Gray’s Botanical Text-Book, Vol 
p Goodale’s Physiological Botany, with histol 
@ with this a course of lectures on genera 
‘v's Botany furnishes collateral 
Then, if the 
0 
itude in that direction, and 1s simply 
t, he goes intoa study 
en Beginners receive a course 0 I ral botany, 
mpanied by laboratory work on structures cease of the 
lectures a oe 
nd antidipatiog them. Sa sa 8" the 
i soit e iene be his is followed 
yst fly 
for groupings of § } 
f great groups a 
second year is then spent i 
types, one or a few being selected from each grou 
