4 ELEMENTS OF BOTANY. 



th.e genus has been reached, presents no difficulty in a little 

 flora like the present one. 



The author does not believe in spending much of the time 

 of a class upon identifying species, but would rather recom- 

 mend comparative studies of as many plants of a group as are 

 accessible, and making these studies thorough enough to 

 bring out fully the idea of the Family, the Genus, and the 

 Species.* The descriptions in Part II of this book may be 

 used as a check on the cruder ones which the pupil is first to 

 frame for himself. 



1 The teaolier will find abundant suggestions for such a course in Spalding's 

 Introdvction to Botany, pp. 152-260. 



