AMERICAN SCIENCE SERIES 



BOTANY 



HIGH SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES 



BY 



CHAELES E. BESSEY, Ph.D., 



PROFESSOR OP BOTANY IN THE UNIVERSITY OP NEBRASKA; FORMERLY PROFESSOR OF 



BOTANY IN THE IOWA AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE; ASSOCIATE EDITOR OF 



THE "AMERICAN NATURALIST" (DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY). 



FOXJRTR EDITION REVISED 



NEW YORK 

 HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY 



1885 



