The Botanic

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The Botany Knowledge of the plants went without doubt, one of the first groupers that the man, and the first classification that is made of them was divi- giving them in groceries bles and poisonous, in what the man was not greater than certain animals that also they know how to distinguish them frequently with more certainty. Describing, classifying, and knowing plants is what cyan pursues. natural called Botany. " Ancient peoples knew some plants, some for their usefulness others for their adornment. About sixty-two species are found in the books of the Hebrews; in the poems of Homer there are also many and Aristotle wrote two books on plant life. Theophrastus is considered the Father of Scientific Botany »: in his (Historia de las Flantas)) described more than three hundred and fifty species, also giving rich details on plant anatomy and physiology. Botany constituted as a science, it has been divided into several branches Morphology, Physiology, Phytography, Taxonomy, etc. Mortology studies the matter, tissues and organs of the plant Physiology, the functions of plant organs; Phytography, description of plants with all their characters: Taxonomy, classi- cation, affinities and differences of plants. The number of known vegetables increases day by day due to the discoveries experiments made in virgin, or unexplored, regions.

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Plants are classified into individuals, species, genera, orders, fa- milias and classes. The individual classification applies to each different being separately, the group of individuals with the same characters, forms a kind; the gathering of species that bear an obvious resemblance they form a genus; the genera that have common characters form the orders; if the genders are grouped by some feature that relates them to make up the family, which is designated by a proper name to distinguish guide her; Lastly, classes are made up of a number of orders or of families reunited by a general and more remarkable character, but always. own to each individual contained in them. Plants, like animals, are born, grow, reproduce and die.