Excerpt from A Manual of Botany: Including the Structure, Functions, Classifications, Properties, and Uses of PlantsThe vast number Of facts, observations, and terms necessarily treated of, in the departments Of Structural, Morphological, and Systematic Botany, have compelled the author to give buta brief account of the Physiology Of Plants, he hopes, however, that even here, all the more important subjects bearing upon the education Of the medical practitioner and pharmaceutist will be found sufficiently comprehensive. TO those who require a more complete knowledge Of this department he would refer them to the Second Part Of Balfour's class-book of Botany, in which valuable work full details upon Physiological Botany will be found.The author had a great desire, also, to include in the present volume an Appendix upon Descriptive Botany, and a Glossary Of Botanical Terms, but the manual having already exceeded the limits desired, he is unable to do so. The index itself will, however, serve as a glossary by referring to the pages. In which the different terms are defined and explained, and with regard to Descriptive Botany, the author would especially recommend every reader Of this work to Obtain a small but very valuable work on that subject which has been recently published by Dr. Lindley.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.