. Class-book of botany : being outlines of the structure, physiology and classification of plants : with a flora of the United States and Canada . Botany; Botany; Botany. THE DEPARTMENTS OP THE 8TUDT. 13 the completeness of its being; A tulip is composed of organs -which may be separated and subdivided indefinitely, but no one of the frag- ments alone â will be a complete plant. 33. Animals, lite plants, are organized bodies endowed with vitality, and composed of distinct parts, no one of which is complete in itself, but they are elevated above either plants or minerals by their power of per-
. Class-book of botany : being outlines of the structure, physiology and classification of plants : with a flora of the United States and Canada . Botany; Botany; Botany. THE DEPARTMENTS OP THE 8TUDT. 13 the completeness of its being; A tulip is composed of organs -which may be separated and subdivided indefinitely, but no one of the frag- ments alone â will be a complete plant. 33. Animals, lite plants, are organized bodies endowed with vitality, and composed of distinct parts, no one of which is complete in itself, but they are elevated above either plants or minerals by their power of per- ception, 34. These distinctions, long since suggested by Linnseus, the founder of botani- cal science, are perfectly obvious and definite in the higher grades of the animal and vegetable kingdoms. But in descending the scale, we recognize a gradual approach, in both, to inorganic matter, and consequently to each other, so that in'the lowest forms of life all traces of organizatibn are lost to our perception, and the three kingdoms of nature, like converging radii, apparent- ly meet and blend in a com- mon centre. 35. The position op the PLANT-WORLD IN RANK and office Is intermediate. While inferior to the animal in re- spect to perception and in- stinct, it is superior to the mineral in its vitality. In office it constitutes the food and nourishment of the ani- mal, the vesture and orna- ment of the mineral world, whence alone itself is fed. In other words, plants feed on minerals, animals feed on plants. 36. Physics is the. FrOTjRE 1. A diagram illustrating these views of the three kingdoms of natureâhow related to each other. general name of the science which treats of the mineral or inorganic world. 37. Zoology relates to the animal kingdom. 38. Botany is the science of the vegetable kingdom. It includes the knowledge of the forms, organs, structure, growth, and uses of plants, together with their history and classification. Its several de- partments correspond to the vari
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