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plant is alive, and the first part of the book is occupied with a 
series of suggestions for simple observations and experiments which 
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part the parts of a plant’s body and their uses are discussed, while 
part 3, ‘* Specialization in Plants,” describes the adaptation of the 
‘* Plants in their Homes,” f 
study of plant-associations. The text is well illustrated by a few 
good plates and a number of smaller text-figures, which, if some- 
what crude, have the claim of originality, and the -book is very 
cheap. 
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by a sketch of the literature of the subject. The author has de- 
parted from Braun’s generally accepted grouping of the species of 
