A Handbook of Some South Indian Weeds Containing Complete Descriptions and Short Notes on Some of the Common Weeds Indigenous and Introduced in South India

The Educational Code in England lays it down that one of the purposes of the public elementary school is " to train the children carefully in habits of observation and clear reasoning that they may gain an intelligent acquaintance with some of the facts and laws of nature." This is an aspect of education which should retnive tar more attention"iv in Indiatil*IiipoWthan it has done in the past. [...] This book will fill one of the existing gaps and it will place in the hands of the teacher a mine of information about the very commonest of plants to be found in the fields round any school and it will provide a source of a long series of nature study lessons. [...] With the idea of making the text easy of undestanding the present chapter is devoted to treat the arrangement of the parts in as simple a manner as possible. [...] The lower one that is in the soil is the root and the upper one that grows above the ground is the shoot. [...] The angle which the petiole makes with the axis or the stem is the axil of the leaf.