. Botany of the living plant. Botany; Plants. PREFACE TO FOURTH EDITION A textbook of any progressive Science needs to be revised from time to time, if it is to serve the student as it should do. This book, fii issued a quarter of a century ago, has been twice revised. In the pro- duction of the Third Edition the author gratefully acknowledged the help of Professor Drummond in respect of his new Chapter XXXV., on Heredity and Variation, and of Dr. Bond in the general revision of the parts dealing with Physiology. The exhaustion of that Edition has given the opportunity for another general revi
. Botany of the living plant. Botany; Plants. PREFACE TO FOURTH EDITION A textbook of any progressive Science needs to be revised from time to time, if it is to serve the student as it should do. This book, fii issued a quarter of a century ago, has been twice revised. In the pro- duction of the Third Edition the author gratefully acknowledged the help of Professor Drummond in respect of his new Chapter XXXV., on Heredity and Variation, and of Dr. Bond in the general revision of the parts dealing with Physiology. The exhaustion of that Edition has given the opportunity for another general revision of the Text, together with some additions of fresh matter. In producing this Fourth Edition the author wishes to acknowledge the general help of Professor Wardlaw, and in particular his revision of Chapters XXL to XX\ III. Both Professor Wardlaw and myself have also made certain other additions, as required. The result of these changes has been to modernise the Text. F. O. BOWER. PREFACE TO THIRD EDITION The present Volume was framed in 1919 upon the Courses of Elemen- tary Lectures on Botany given in Glasgow University during a h succession of years. Those Courses were progressively re-modelled and developed as time went on, while the clastic limits of a book have allowed the introduction of sundry additions. And so in successive issues the text has expanded. But the main oh throughout has been in the first place that of presenting the individual plant as a living, growing, self-nourishing, self-adapting creature, 1 I always endeavoured to sketch it in the Lecture Room, and to dt monstrate it in the Laboratory. The subject-matter is parcelled out into a series of E: one self-contained. They arc designed so as to fii together and ton vi 1. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bower, F. O. (Fr
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