4 rOinSDATIONS OF BOTANY 



specimen belongs.* The identification of the species, after 

 the 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 this flora may be used as a 

 check on the cruder ones which the pupil is first to frame for 

 himself. 



1 It will greatly simplify matters if the teacher selects for examination only such 

 species as are here described. 



2 The teacher will find abundant suggestions for such a course in Spalding's 

 Introduction to Botany, pp. 152-260. 



