An Introduction to Vegetable Physiology (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from An Introduction to Vegetable Physiology Although during recent years considerable additions have been made to our elementary botanical textbooks, not one has appeared which deals solely, or at any length, with the subject of vegetable physiology. This has been either presented to the reader as a particular section in a comprehensive work, or treated of incidentally in connection with anatomical detail. This is the more strange, as an adequate and intelligent appreciation of the forms and structure of vegetable organisms can only be gained by a consideration of the work they have to carry out. It must be evident to the student of Nature that the peculiarities of external and internal form, of which any particular plant has become possessed, have arisen necessarily in connection with the need of mechanisms to do certain work, to overcome particular disadvantages, and generally to bring the organism into a satisfactory relationship with the surroundings among which it finds itself. I have been led by these considerations to endeavour to fill this gap by writing an introduction to the subject, which, while putting physiology into its proper prominence among the branches of botanical study, shall serve to pave the way of the student and of the general reader to the more complete discussion of the subject which may be met with in the advanced textbooks of Sachs, Vines, and Pfeffer. 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.