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The Study of Plant Life

Chapter 1: THE STUDY OF PLANT LIFE
By Marie Carmichael Stopes
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This illustrated guide introduces young readers to the living nature of plants and shows how to learn about them through direct observation. It explains detectable signs of life, seed and seedling development, and how plants obtain and manufacture food from soil and air, including the roles of light and water movement. Individual organs—roots, stems, leaves, buds, flowers, fruits—and the tissues that compose them are described with practical, simple language. Chapters outline growth, movement, community relationships, ecological problems, and hands-on activities and mapping exercises suitable without a microscope.

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Title: The Study of Plant Life

Author: Marie Carmichael Stopes

Release date: March 21, 2019 [eBook #59106]

Language: English

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THE STUDY OF PLANT LIFE

First Impression October 1906.
Second Impression February 1907.
Second Edition 1910.

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

ANCIENT PLANTS

BEING A SIMPLE ACCOUNT OF THE PAST VEGETATION OF THE EARTH AND OF THE RECENT IMPORTANT DISCOVERIES MADE IN THIS REALM OF NATURE STUDY

Illustrated. Demy 8vo, 4s. 6d. net

“Miss Stopes’s book is an enterprising and able attempt to popularize a difficult subject. The really keen student will undoubtedly be stimulated to pursue the study of fossil plants further, and even those who are not students will get some new ideas and derive a certain amount of interest from a book which is sometimes brilliant but never dull.”—Nature.

“Dr. Marie Stopes has made a name for herself in this special line. Anyone who takes an intelligent interest in the subject cannot fail to be charmed with the pleasant manner in which Dr. Stopes conveys her information.”—Athenæum.