Excerpt from A General System of Botany, Descriptive and Analytical: In Two Parts; Part I. Outlines of Organography, Anatomy, and Physiology; Part II. Descriptions and Illustrations of the Orders The reader will observe that We have treated the Monocotyledons and Cryptogams with greater fulness than the Dicotyledons this is because the two first, and especially the Cryptogams, having hitherto been much less fully studied than the Dicotyledons, required much more careful illustration. 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.