OCR Text |
Show "Histuria Naturalis." Yesterday w:vs really the firit legitimate legit-imate Spring day that we have experienced ex-perienced this season; tlie little birds warbled upon tho tree tops and all nature seemed to rejoice. Now is a good time for the embryo vegetable phyisiologist to begin his researches of the various botanical growth, from the incipient bud, merging into the petal stamen or carpel, until the full fruition. Lobelias de Lille was the first to distinguish monocotyledonous 1 from dicotyledonous plants. Among . the botanists who flourished later was i Thcodorus Taberuiemontonus whoso ideas of botany were certainly very ' clear; but those wli.o desire, to delve to the innermost depths of the subject would find it to their advantage to study 'jaicra plantanun scat nd urn ordiiies nalinvf-js dcposUa. It was published a few hundred years ago, but the intended "weed picker"- can probably lind Jit at some of the bookstores. |