Project Gutenberg 2010-09-18 Public domain in the USA. 186 Gray, Asa 1810 1888 01000850 The Elements of Botany, For Beginners and For Schools Produced by Curtis Weyant, Stephen H. Sentoff and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net "The Elements of Botany, For Beginners and For Schools" by Asa Gray is a scientific publication written in the late 19th century. This educational work serves to introduce readers, particularly students, to the principles of botany, focusing on the structure, growth, and behavior of flowering plants. Gray aims to equip newcomers with a foundational understanding of botanical concepts, emphasizing the importance of practical observation over rote memorization of technical terms. The opening of this volume presents a preface explaining its purpose and revisions from Gray's earlier works. It establishes that the book is designed for schools and aims to make botanical knowledge accessible and interesting to beginners by concentrating on flowering plants and their structural components. Gray introduces essential botanical vocabulary and outlines the structure and function of plants, setting the stage for a systematic study while underlining the practical aspects of plant observation and understanding. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Plants QK Text Browsing: Science - Genetics/Biology/Evolution Browsing: Teaching & Education 772001 772012 2024-09-14T08:41:15.892141 2023-09-15T04:04:11.478016 text/html text/html 741615 2021-01-07T00:39:39 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 3928639 2021-01-07T00:39:39 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 3778264 2024-09-14T08:41:34.595993 application/epub+zip 3788948 2024-09-14T08:41:20.009048 application/epub+zip 316143 2024-09-14T08:41:17.795078 application/epub+zip 4114643 2024-09-14T08:41:43.246942 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 4002452 2024-09-14T08:41:32.266998 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 564674 2022-09-15T11:36:17.582840 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 572095 2024-09-14T08:41:11.571151 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 571301 2021-01-07T00:39:39 text/plain; charset=utf-8 202138 2021-01-07T00:39:39 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 571588 2021-01-07T00:39:39 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 202092 2021-01-07T00:39:39 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 571903 2021-01-07T00:39:39 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 202005 2021-01-07T00:39:40 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21238 2024-09-14T08:41:43.416932 application/rdf+xml 16529 2024-09-14T08:41:18.369094 image/jpeg 3637 2024-09-14T08:41:18.078097 image/jpeg 4138572 2024-09-14T08:41:16.450111 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia