UNIVERSITY EXTENSION. 1891 - 92. 



ELEMENTARY COURSE in BOTANY 

 LECTURE I. 



The Purpose of the Science 



Its Power in Education. 



Its Relation to Kindred Sciences ^ ^ 



A Study which inflicts no pain. 

 An In-expensive pursuit. 

 The abundance of materials.. 

 Simplicity of Elementary Pacts. 

 Relation to foreign languages. 

 The t^echatical language of Botany. 



Aesthetic aspects of the Science. i^iom- , , 



Extreme finish in Nature. 

 Friendships of Science. 

 Botany' s Relation to the Microscope- 

 More Practical Objects. 



Relations to Horticulture, Agriculture, Floriculture. 



U Medicine and Commerce. ^ Ct^-^a^r- S 

 The great influence of Kew Gardens. 



Practical work of Botanists. Uses of the Botanic Garden. Jp^ 7 — • 



Cl. i^JU*-£. 4- Uses of the Herbarium. The Scope of Botany. 



Definition of the Term. What is a plant? 

 Nature draws no sharp lines of demarcation between animals 

 and plants. 



Some Motile Plants considered, as Diatoms; spores of 



Algae . J 



Some movements of plants parts as Leaves^Miroosa, Desmodium 



Root-tips, Tendrils. Flower-parts. Fruits. 



Some carnivorous plants considered, as, Dionaea, Drosera, 



S ar r ac e n i a , Da r I i ng t o n i a , 

 Other Vanishing Tests. 



Close observation required of the Student. 



Division of Labor necessary- Definitions of Morphology, 



Physiology- etc. 



Primary Divisions of the Vegetable Kingdom. 

 Phanprogamia, Cryptogarr.ia. 



