02039cam a22003133u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003701000130007804000110009104100170010205000070011910000260012624500580015226400510021030000470026133600260030833700260033433800360036050000310039650801190042752010630054653400450160965300110165485600430166599900170170833757UtSlPG20260610133753.0mcr n260607r2010||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d a01000850 aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aQK1 aGray, Asa,d1810-188814aThe Elements of Botany, For Beginners and For Schools 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2010 a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats atextbtxt2rdacontent acomputerbc2rdamedia aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier aRelease date is 2010-09-18 aProduced by Curtis Weyant, Stephen H. Sentoff and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net a"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.) nOriginal publication data not identified aPlants40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33757 c74603d74603