Botany for Ladies

The following pages are intended to enable my readers to acquire a knowledge of Botany with as little trouble to themselves as possible.
As, however, Botany is a “wide word,” I must here premise that I only propose to treat of that part of the science which relates to the classification of plants, according to the natural system of Jussieu, as improved by the late Professor De Candolle; and that the grand object I have in view is to enable my readers to find out the name of a plant when they...