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and tentative scheme, which is presented in 

 outline without definitions, which may be 

 found in any large dictionary of the English 

 language. 



DEPAETMENTS OP BOTANY 



I. Systematic Botany. 



Terminology. 



Nomenclature. 



Classification. 



Taxonomy. 



Phylogeny. 



II. Morphologic Botany. 

 Organography, including Morphogenesis. 

 Biometry. 



Experimental Morphology. 



Teratology. 



Histology. 



Cytology. 



Embryology. 



III. Physiologic Botany. 

 Special Physiology. 

 Phenology. 

 Zymology. 



("Inheritance. 

 GenetiesJ Hybridization. 

 [Plant Breeding. 



IV. Ecologic Botany. 

 Ecology Proper. 

 Anthobiology. 

 Myrmecophily. 

 Ceoidology. 



V. Geographic Botany. 

 Distribution. 



Distributional Philosophy. 

 Distributional Statistics. 

 Ploristics. 

 Synecology. 



TI. Pathologic Botany. 

 Pathography. 



'Physiologic Pathology. 



Toxicologic Pathology. 



Bacteriologic Pathology. 



Fungologic Pathology. 



Bntomologic Pathology. 



Chemic Pathology. 

 Therapy. 

 Prophylaxis. 

 VII. Paleontologia Botany {Paleobotany, Paleo- 

 phytology). 

 Paleography. 

 Paleostratigraphy. 

 Paleogenesis. 

 Paleotechnics ( Paleomechanics ) . 



Etiology 



VIII. Historic Botany. 

 Etymology. 

 Biography. 

 Synonymy. 

 Bibliography. 



History of Botanic Work, Exploration and 

 Discovery. 



IX. Philosophic Botany. 

 X. Ethnobotany. 



XI. Applied Botany. 



Cultural. 



Agricultural. 



pFloricuIture. 



Eruticulture. 

 Horticultural JQjg^j^^l^^^^_ 



t Viticulture. 

 Forestal. 



Landscape Gardening. 

 Esthetic (use of plants in decoration). 

 Economic. 



Pharmacoergasy (culture, 

 collection and harvest- 

 ing of drugs). 

 "Pharma- Pharmacoemporia (com- 

 cognosy 1 mercial handling of 

 drugs). 

 Pharmacodiakosmy 

 Medical. (packing, etc.). 



Pharmacology. 

 Pharmacodynamics. 

 Phytotoxicology. 

 Materia Medica. 

 Educational. 



The application of this scheme of classifica- 

 tion is illustrated in the arrangement of a 

 collection of lantern slides, according to the 

 following : 



CLASSIFICATION OF LANTEBN SLIDES 



Systematic. — Arrangement according to Natural 



Families (see Engler's "Syllabus der Pflan- 



zenfamilien," 1-314). 

 Morphology (Spermatophytes). — The general and 



detailed structure of Angiospermee and Gym- 



nospermse. 



315. Seedlings. 



316. Boots. 



317. Stems and Buds. 



318. Leaves. 



319. Flowers. 



320. Stamens and Pollen. 



321. Pistil, including Ovary, Style and Stigma. 



