Excerpt from A Manual of Botany for Indian Forest Students He should for example possess a good knowledge of the charac ters most commonly employed in plant descriptions and thus be able to identify plants from their written descriptions and to use a Flora with advantage. He should also have an eye for those characters of bark, habit, etc., which enable one to recog nise on sight different species in the forest at different times of year. Such characters are dealt with in Part I of the Manual. Those for whom this book is primarily intended have very little time for microscopic work both during their course of training and thereafter. Anatomy therefore is very briefly dealt with in Part I I and only so far as has been considered necessary for a fairly clear idea of the main facts of Physiology and Pathology as given in Parts I I I and V. 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.