The rare Barringtonia papuana can be viewed now in flower at the Harold L. Lyon Arboretum. The plant’s bloom, at right, resembles a small pompom. The genus Barringtonia was named in honor of Daines ...

Vascular bundles in a plant’s leaf, shown above in an image taken through a microscope, contain xylem. This is a network of tissues that helps transport water throughout the interior of the plant.

THE scope of this book is somewhat ambitious, for although it is limited to the requirements of intermediate examinations, it takes up in considerable detail the four main branches of botany.

THE task of summarising the principles of ecology and other branches of botany concerned with the relation of plant to environment is one with which teachers are confronted at the present time. Prof.