Excerpt from College Botany: Including Organography, Vegetable Histology, Vegetable Physiology and Vegetable Taxonomy; With a Brief Account of the Succession of Plants in Geologic Time, and a Glossary of Botanical Terms I. Organography, that branch of structural botany which treats of the organs or instruments with which plants do their work, as roots, stems, leaves, parts of flowers, etc., their forms and modifications. 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.