Excerpt from Text-Book of Western Botany: Consisting of Coulter's Manual of the Botany of the Rocky Mountains, to Which Is Prefixed Gray's Lessons in Botany Students who, having mastered this elementary work, wish to extend their acquaintance with Vegetable Anatomy and Physiology, and to con der higher questions about the sanctum and classification of plants, will be prepared to take up the author's Botanical text-book, an Introduction to Structural Botany, or other more detailed treatises. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.