APPENDIX D. 



EEFEEENCE BOOKS.^ 



Only a few of the books "vvliich the author regards as the most 

 usefiil guides to elementary study and research in their several 

 departments are here named. Both pupil and teacher will find it 

 desirable to consult some of them frequently throughout the whole 

 course of the botanical work. The starred titles (**) indicate books 

 which will aid the teacher, but which the ordinary high-school pupil 

 could hardly use. Where it is possible to discriminate, the best 

 book, that is the book which combines accuracy, fullness, newness, 

 and simplicity of statement to the highest degree, is placed first in 

 its own list. 



General Works. 



Kerner and Oliver, Natural Hkiory of Plants.. Blackie & Son, 

 London, 1805. Henry Holt & Co., New York, 1895. 



Strasburger, Noll, Schenk, and Sohimper, Lehrbuch der Botaiiil;** 

 zweite Auflage. Gustav Fischer, Jena, 1896.^ 



Vines, Stmlents' Text-Book of Botany,** 2 vols. Macmillan & Co., 

 New York, 1895. 



Behrens, Text-Book of General Botany. Pentland, Edinburgh. 



The Kerner and Oliver is a costly book, but is almost indispens- 

 able, since it goes over the greater part of the field of botany in a 

 full and accurate, yet thoroughly simple and interesting way. The 

 only criticism that can be urged against it is on the score of 

 occasional fanciful statements, in regard to theories as yet unproved. 

 The work by Strasburger and others is perhaps the best recent 



1 Tlie author lias been much aided in the preparation of this list by the one con- 

 tained in Spalding's Iiitroducthm to liolainj. 



2 A translation of this book will be issued by Macmillan & Oo. The author has 

 been obliged in the present book to refer to the first fii'rinan edition of the Leiirbuoh, 

 since the second edition has not reached him in season to be cited. 



