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The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Publisher: London : Blackwood; Publication date: 1876; Subjects: Christian saints/ Legends/ Early works to 1800; Christian saints; Saints; Literary Criticism / General; Religion / Christianity / Saints ... Read more

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The division arrived in France at the end of August 1915 and fought on the Western Front tillOctober 1917, when it was transferred to Italy where it remained for the rest of the war. ... Read more

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General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1831Original Publisher: W. BlackwoodSubjects: BotanyNature / PlantsScience / Life Sciences / BotanyNotes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free.Excerpt: FIRST CLASS.ORGANS OF NUTRITION OR OF VEGETATION.In the foregoing introduction, we have divided the organs of vegetables into two classes, according to their uses. To the First Class belong the Organs of Nutrition or of Vegetation; to the Second, those of Reproduction or of Fructification.The organs of nutrition or of vegetation are all those to which is confided the care of the individual preservation of vegetables. They are the roots, the stems, the buds, the leaves, the stipules, and some of these organs degenerated, such as spines, prickles, and tendrils.These organs have one common object, the support of life in the vegetable. In fact, the root, immersed in the ground, absorbs part of the fluids destined for nourishing the plant and repairing its losses; the stem transmits these fluids to all parts of the plant; while the leaves, which are spread out in the atmosphere, perform the same functions there as the roots do in the ground, and serve at once as absorbing and exhaling organs. From this brief account of their functions, it is seen that these different organs all tend to one and the same object; that they nourish the vegetable, and are subservient to its vegetation, that is, to the development of all its parts.CHAPTER I.OF THE ROOT.The name of Hoot is given to that part of a vegetable which, occupying its lower extremity, and most commonly concealed in the earth, always grows in a direction the reverse of that of the stem; in other words, penetrates perpendicularly into the groun... ... Read more