Excerpt from Reader in Botany: From Seed to Leaf Four of the articles, Nos. II III., XIII., and XV., have been written especially for this Reader. Three articles are translated from Pflanzenleben, 2 and two others owe much of their matter to the same book, which is a very charming popular account of the most recent discoveries in the physiology of plants. The other chapters are from various sources. Sachs' Lectures on the Physiology of Plants 3 has supplied several interesting notes, and is an invalu able work to the teacher who wishes to become more acquainted with this fascinating new field of study. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.