Project Gutenberg 2010-09-18 Public domain in the USA. 417 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.) Reading ease score: 63.5 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. en Plants QK Text Browsing: Science - Genetics/Biology/Evolution Browsing: Teaching & Education Category: Science - Biology Category: Teaching & Education 772505 2025-06-13T15:48:55.853055 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 3796845 2025-06-13T15:49:17.618991 application/epub+zip 3807106 2025-06-13T15:49:02.222007 application/epub+zip 325843 2025-06-13T15:48:59.432061 application/epub+zip 4147072 2025-06-13T15:49:26.795936 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 4036313 2025-06-13T15:49:15.183984 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 564674 2022-09-15T11:36:17.582840 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 571508 2025-06-13T15:48:51.759060 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 21909 2025-06-13T15:49:26.991937 application/rdf+xml 16467 2025-06-13T15:49:00.169022 image/jpeg 3611 2025-06-13T15:48:59.801027 image/jpeg 4156058 2025-06-13T15:48:56.499070 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia