This volume takes the place of the author's Lessons in Botany and Vegetable Physiology published over a quarter of a century ago. It is constructed on the same lines and is a kind of new and much revised edition of that successful work. While in some respects more extended it is also more concise and terse than its predecessor. This should the better fit it for its purpose now that competent teachers are common. They may in many cases develop paragraphs into lectures and fully illustrate points which are barely but it is hoped clearly stated. Indeed even for those without a teacher it may be that a condensed is better than a diffuse exposition.