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Botany: The Science of Plant Life
Norman Taylor
Follow a plant from root to seed and you have the whole science in miniature. Norman Taylor's introduction works part by part through root, stem, leaf, flower, and fruit, explaining how each does its job in the living plant. A clear, well-ordered primer in botany for the general reader. The book to hand anyone who wants to understand the green world.
Every copy includes a printable PDF edition, a beautifully typeset book you can print, mark up in the margins, and keep on your shelf. Yours the moment you own it.
97 chapters
- 1BOTANY
- 2PREFACE
- 3CONTENTS
- 4LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 5INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER PLANTS AND OUR DAILY NEEDS
- 6CHAPTER I WHAT PLANTS ARE
- 71. Flowering Plants
- 8THE ROOT
- 9THE STEM
- 10THE LEAF
- 11THE FLOWER
- 12THE FRUIT
- 13THE SEED
- 142. Flowerless Plants
- 15THE FERNS
- 16OTHER FLOWERLESS PLANTS
- 17Summary Of What Plants Are
- 18CHAPTER II PLANT BEHAVIOR
+ 79 more. The full contents open with the book.
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