The Elements of Botany

Narrators: J. M. Smallheer, Corrinne LePage, Laurencetrask, MacKenzie Nikol Greenwood, Kathleen Moore, Larry Wilson, Peter Yearsley, Amy Gramour

Number of Chapters: 22

Length: 07 hours and 45 minutes

Language: English

The book is intended to ground beginners in Structural Botany and the principles of vegetable life, mainly as concerns Flowering or Phanerogamous plants, with which botanical instruction should always begin; also to be a companion and interpreter to the Manuals and Floras by which the student threads his flowery way to a clear knowledge of the surrounding vegetable creation. Such a book, like a grammar, must needs abound in technical words, which thus arrayed may seem formidable; nevertheless, if rightly apprehended, this treatise should teach that the study of botany is not the learning of names and terms, but the acquisition of knowledge and ideas. No effort should be made to commit technical terms to memory. Any term used in describing a plant or explaining its structure can be looked up when it is wanted, and that should suffice. On the other hand, plans of structure, types, adaptations, and modifications, once understood, are not readily forgotten; and they give meaning and interest to the technical terms used in explaining them. - Summary by Asa Gray

SECTION I. INTRODUCTORY (J. M. Smallheer)

SECTION II. FLAX AS A PATTERN PLANT (J. M. Smallheer)

SECTION III. MORPHOLOGY OF SEEDLINGS (Corrinne LePage)

SECTION IV. GROWTH FROM BUDS; BRANCHING (laurencetrask)

SECTION V. ROOTS (laurencetrask)

SECTION VI. STEMS (laurencetrask)

SECTION VII. LEAVES -Part 1 (laurencetrask)

SECTION VII. LEAVES -Part 2-4 (laurencetrask)

SECTION VIII. FLOWERS. Part 1-3 (MacKenzie Nikol Greenwood)

SECTION VIII. FLOWERS. Part 4-5 (MacKenzie Nikol Greenwood)

SECTION IX. STAMENS IN PARTICULAR (Kathleen Moore)

SECTION X. PISTILS IN PARTICULAR (Kathleen Moore)

SECTION XI. OVULES (Kathleen Moore)

SECTION XII. MODIFICATIONS OF THE RECEPTACLE (Kathleen Moore)

SECTION XIII. FERTILIZATION (Larry Wilson)

SECTION XIV. THE FRUIT (Corrinne LePage)

SECTION XV. THE SEED (Larry Wilson)

SECTION XVI. VEGETABLE LIFE AND WORK. Parts 1-4 (Corrinne LePage)

SECTION XVI. VEGETABLE LIFE AND WORK. Parts 5-6 (Corrinne LePage)

SECTION XVII. CRYPTOGAMOUS OR FLOWERLESS PLANTS (Peter Yearsley)

SECTION XVIII. CLASSIFICATION AND NOMENCLATURE (Amy Gramour)

SECTION XIX. BOTANICAL WORK (Corrinne LePage)

The audiobook The Elements of Botany falls under the genres of Reference, Life Sciences. It is written by Asa Gray.

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