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PROF. WOOD'S COMPLETE TREATISE. 

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CZiA&S BOO^ or BOTANV; being outlines of the Structure, Fhilo6oph7, 

 and Classification of Plants, with a Flora of the United States and Canada. By 

 Alphonso Wood, A. M., Principal of Female Academy, Brooklyn. 8vo, pp. 832. 

 Price, $2 50. Published by Barnes & Burr, New York. 



Teachers, pupils, and amateurs will find in the new Class Book of Botany, the 

 following peculiar advantages: 



First. The Scientific Treatise embraced in Parts I., II., and III., is remarkable for 

 its comprehensiveness, clearness, and brevity; is divided into short paragraphs, 

 suited to the learner's convenience ; and each paragraph, with the topic prefixed in 

 capitals, is adapted to recitation and. reviews. 



Second, The Flora comprehends a wider territory than that of any School Botany 

 now in use, extending from the Atlantic to the Mississippi, and from the St- Law- 

 rence to the Gulf of Mexico. 



Third. The Flora comprehends not only our native, spontaneous vegetation, but 

 also one thousand species of cultivated plants — almost our entire exotic flora, grow- 

 ing in the field, the garden, aud the conservatory; thus rendering the study of 

 Botany as practicable m the city as in the country. 



JFburth. The descriptions of species are unusually full, graphic, and popular in 

 style. ' 



Fifth. The Tables for analysis arc far in advance of those in the former editions, 

 both in simplicity and exte.nt, reaching now from the Grand Division to the Species, 

 and by their peculiar form adapted to class exercise throughout the entire route; 

 thus rendering the pursuit at once a vigorous discipline and an exciting amusement. 



" I am delighted with Prof. Wood's new Botany ; 

 we have now used it in a class of 35, and find H all 

 we could desire as a text-hook ; simple and clear in 

 its descriptions, full in its illustrations, style con- 

 densed, requiring alone attention, and yet all the 

 principles of the science so fully developed, that as 

 the student advances he finds new pleasure in the 

 form and fashion of every organ, as means adapted 

 to a particular end ; and then the line tahles of 

 analysis so facilitate the lahor in tracing the plant 

 to its specie^, that but little time is consumed in 

 that process. We heartily thank the author for his 

 long years of patient indefatigahle toil, which lias 

 given to the youth of our country so comprehensive 

 a work on the vegetable kingdom." — From Jtre. 

 M. Poyle, Teacher of Natural Science in Ohio 

 Female College. 



" I have introduced Prof. Wood's new Class Book 

 of Botany, and am much pleased with it ; in fact, it 

 is viy ideal for a Class Book of Botany, for classes 



in an Academy like this. In the condensation you 

 have succeeded admirably; the illuntrations are 

 excellent, giving a very clear idea of the different 

 parts of tiie plant, and of the meaning of the techni- 

 cal terras. The Flora is very full, and I think has 

 been much improved by the addition of the exotics. 

 The analytical tables are the mostperfect I have 

 ever seen." — William A. AnOiony, Teacher of Nat- 

 urdl Science, Providence Ckmferance Seminary, Eait 

 Greenicichf B. I, 



Charlottestillb, N. Y., Jan. 1861. 

 My opinion of your work may be summed up in a 

 few words. I deem it the best work of its kind 

 extant. I have studied and think am familiar with 

 all American works ; and for preciseness of descrip- 

 tion, I think yours the preferable one. Your "Key" 

 is very ingenious, and is the only intelligible one I 

 know of adapted to the want/i of ntudenta. — E. C. 

 So*oe, Prof. Nat. Science, New York Ckmference 

 Seminary, 



The publishers of "Prof. Wood's Botany," would add, that many large institu- 

 tions, like "Amherst College," "Mount Holyoke Female Seminary," "Packer 

 Institute, Brooklyn," "Delaware College, Ohio," and "Michigan State Normal 

 School," are using the Book with great success. 



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intered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, 



By BARNES & BUEB, 



In the Clerk^s OMce of the District Court of the United States for the Southern 



District of New York. 



