Contents: Introductory chapter. I. Outlines of the morphology, natural history, classification, geographical distribution and economic uses of the flowering plants and ferns: 1. Outlines of the general morphology, physiology, and natural history of the flowering plants and ferns.
2. Classification of plants.
3. Forms of vegetation, geographical distribution of plants, &c.
4. Economic botany.
II. The classes, cohorts, orders and chief genera of the flowering plants and ferns, alphabetically arranged under their Latin names.
III. Glossarial index of English names, economic products, technical terms, specific names, abbreviations, prefixes, &c.
"The student, when placed before the bewildering variety of plants met with in a botanical garden, museum, or in the field, does not know where to begin or what to do. The available works of general reference are mostly bulky and say very little about morphology or natural history.
This book brings together as much information as is required by a botany student, upon all plants
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