Outlines of Botany 



FOR THE 



HIGH SCHOOL LABORATORY AND CLASSROOM 



BY 



ROBERT GREENLEAF LEAVITT, A.M. 

 Of the Ames Botanical Laboratory 



Prepared at the request of the Botanical Department of Harvard 

 University 



LEAVITT'S OUTLINES OF BOTANY. Cloth, 8vo. 272 pages . $1 00 

 With Gray's Field, Forest, and Garden Flora, 791 pp. . .1 .80 

 With Gray's Manual, 1087 pp 2.25 



This book has been prepared to meet a specific demand. Many 

 schools, having outgrown the method of teaching botany hitherto 

 prevalent, find the more recent text-books too difficult and comprehensive 

 for practical use in an elementary course. In order, therefore, to adapt 

 this text-book to present requirements, the author has combined with 

 great simplicity and definiteness in presentation, a careful selection and 

 a judicious arrangement of matter. It offers 



1. A series of laboratory exercises in the morphology and physiology 



of phanerogams. 



2. Directions for a practical study of typical cryptogams, represent- 



ing the chief groups from the lowest to the highest. 



3. A substantial body of information regarding the forms, activities, 



and relationships of plants, and supplementing the laboratory 

 studies. 



The laboratory work is adapted to any equipment, and the instruc- 

 tions for it are placed in divisions by themselves, preceding the related 

 chapters of descriptive text, which follows in the main the order of 

 topics in Gray's Lessons in Botany. Special attention is paid to the 

 ecological aspects of plant life, while at the same time morphology and 

 physiology are fully treated. 



There are 384 carefully drawn illustrations, many of them entirely 

 new. The appendix contains full descriptions of the necessary laboratory 

 materials, with directions for their use. It also gives helpful sugges- 

 tions for the exercises, addressed primarily to the teacher, and indicating 

 clearly the most effective pedagogical methods. 



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