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I approached the study of water plants with the hope that the consideration of this limited group might impart some degree of precision to my own misty ideas of evolutionary processes. Botanists seem to be universally agreed that the aquatic angiosperms are derived from terrestrial ancestors, and have adopted the water habit at various times subsequent to their first appearance as flowering plants. The hydrophytes thus present the great advantage to the student, ...
The main object of the present book is to trace in outline the evolution of the printed herbal in Europe between the years 1470 and 1670, primarily from a botanical, and secondarily from an artistic standpoint. The medical aspect, which could only be dealt with satisfactorily by a specialist in that science, I have practically left untouched, as also the gardening literature of the period. Bibliographical information is not given in detail, except in so far as it ...