A HISTOEY 



OF 



THE VEGETABLE KINGDOM; 



EMBRACING 



THE PHYSIOLOGY OF PLANTS, 



THEIR USES TO MAN AND THE LOWER ANIMALS, 



AKD THEIE AJPLIOATION IN THE 



ARTS, MANUFACTUEES, AND DOMESTIC ECONOMY. 



By WILLIAM EHIND, 



LECTURE'B ON BOTANY, MARISCHAL COLLEGE, ABERDEEN. 



ILLUSTRATKD BY SEVERAL HUNDRED FIGURES. 



LONDON: 



BLACKIE AND SON: PATERNOSTER ROW; 

 AND GLASGOW AND BDINBUEGH. 



MDCCCLXV. 



