AMERICAN SCIENCE SERIES 



ESSENTIALS OF 



COLLEGE BOTANY 



BY 



CHARLES E. BESSEY, Ph. D., LL. D. 



BEAD PROPESBOB OP BOTAiTy IN THE UNIVERSITY OP NEBRASKA 



AND 



ERNST A. BESSEY, Ph. D. 



PROFESSOR OF BOTANY IN THE MICHIGAN AQRICtrLTTTRAL COLLEGE 



EIGHTH EDITION OF "tHE ESSENTIALS OP BOTANY" 



ENTIRELY REWRITTEN 



With 206 Diagrammatic Illustrations 



NEW YORK 

 HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY 



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