If he elects to study plants, under any aspect, we know at once what to call him; he is a botanist and his science is botany.
Let the botanist or the zoologist examine and describe the productions of a country, and one will pretty certainly disagree with the other as to the number, limits, and definitions of the species into which he groups the very same things.
Among these minds that of the famous naturalist Lamarck, who possessed a greater acquaintance with the lower forms of life than any man of his day, Cuvier not excepted, and was a good botanist to boot, occupies a prominent place.
Yet it is curious that nuts and fruits are really produced by the very slightest variations on a common type, so much so that the technical botanist does not recognise the popular distinction between them at all.
There is a white potentilla so like a strawberry blossom that even a botanistmust look closely at the plant before he can be sure of its identity.
And now the risingbotanist desired to claim his bride.
The Swedish botanist Vahl had named a magnificent species of an East Indian laurel after him, the laurifolia Humboldtia.
Nearly every botanist who has done much towards classifying plants has grouped the stone-fruits according to a plan of his own and there are, therefore, many classification schemes and consequently a most confused nomenclature for this genus.
Safford, economic botanist in the United States Department of Agriculture, has been kind enough to translate Molina's reference to the peach.
Kalm was a student of Linnaeus and the great botanist perpetuated his memory by naming our beautiful mountain laurel, Kalmia.
Amid much that was so strange and antique of type in its productions as to set the analogies of the botanist at fault, there occurred one solitary order, not a few of whose species closely resembled their cogeners of the present time.
But of an intermediate class we have no existing representatives; and in this class the fossil botanist finds puzzles and enigmas with which hitherto at least he has been able to deal with only indifferent success.
The flora of the Coal Measures was the richest and most luxuriant, in at least individual productions, with which the fossil botanist has formed any acquaintance.
Such is the arrangement of Lindley, or rather an arrangement the slow growth of ages, to which this distinguished botanisthas given the last finishing touches.
Even the insects that infest the herbaria of the botanistalmost never injure his ferns.
Let me instance one other family of which the fossil botanist has not yet succeeded in finding any trace in even the Tertiary deposits, and which appears to have been specially created for the gratification of human sense.
The botanical evidences which geologists too often accept as proofs of specific identity are such as no botanist would attach any importance to in the investigation of existing plants.
It would seem as if it were the expression of his views when a botanist and a young man.
By his boldness and presence of mind he, with Savigny and thebotanist Delille, saved the treasures which at Alexandria had fallen into the hands of the English general in command.
I ask what experienced zoölogist or botanist is there who has not thoroughly realized that which I have just explained to you?
Lamarck's success as a botanist led to more or less intimate relations with Buffon.
Desfontaines had the chair of botany, but his attainments as a botanist were mediocre, and his lectures were said to have been tame and uninteresting.
The Intendant, as Hamy adds, knew well the value of the services rendered by Lamarck at the Royal Garden, and that, as a partial recompense, he had been appointed botanist to the museum.
But it appears that the good-will of this great naturalist and courtier for the risingbotanist was not wholly disinterested.
The Jardin Thuret is a great botanical collection, covering an area of over seven hectares, a gift to the nation by the sister of the great botanist of the same name.
In addition nearly all the medicinal plants of the pharmacopoeia are also found, and such exotics as mistletoe and orchids as would delight the heart of a botanist jaded with the commonplaces of a northern forest.
No less than 282 species of plants have been described by this eminent botanist from these deposits.
To quote the words of this distinguished botanist (p.
A botanist notices that the bee flying with the pollen of a male flower to a pistil fertilizes the latter, and sees in this the purpose of the bee's existence.
And the botanist who finds that the apple falls because the cellular tissue decays and so forth is equally right with the child who stands under the tree and says the apple fell because he wanted to eat it and prayed for it.
Few fields of inquiry offer greater possibilities to the economic botanist than fibers.
In attempting to find such major differences in plants, some structural character that would set off one large group of plants from every other group, the botanist has a harder task than the person studying man.
The physiologist may employ it to ascertain the weight lost by animals during respiration and perspiration, and the botanist to determine the amount of evaporation from the leaves of a plant; and from these examples others may be imagined.
By pruning fruit trees we operate so as to check undue growth of wood and leaf, and thus, by what the botanist calls the “arrestation of development,” cause flower and fruit to be formed instead of leaves.
The Botanist who travels without the means of determining these points, destroys half the value of his collections.
Perhaps the botanist who today is totally concerned with the flora of earth will tomorrow find himself fingering a bit of fungus from Mars.
Biology Biology deals with the structure and behavior of plants and animals: the botanist studies plants, the zoologist studies animals, and they both can use radioactivity widely in their research.
Annual Report of the State Botanist issued by the Board of Regents, Albany University.
Chek pine" is frequently given in its list of names, but the name is said to have originated in an attempt of a German botanist to pronounce "Jack pine" in dictating to a stenographer.
It so closely resembles the cork elm that it was supposed to be of the same species, and the close scrutiny of a botanist was required to discover that it was a separate species.
The person who is not a botanistneeds no such help.
This tree was discovered by and named for Archibald Menzies, a Scotch botanist who traveled in the Northwest more than a hundred years ago.
The name of the species, nootkatensis, was given it by Archibald Menzies, a Scotch botanist who discovered it on the shore of Nootka sound in Alaska.
It is admitted that it possesses characters not found in any other oak, but these are important to the botanist only, while laymen have never considered the tree anything but an oak.
When a lumberman speaks of red oak he may mean any one of a good many kinds of trees, but when a botanist or forester uses that name he means one particular species and no other.
The family has its name from Pierre Magnol, a French botanist who died in 1715.
The name is in honor of Johann Jacob Planer, a German botanist whose efforts did much for science nearly two hundred years ago.
The generic name is in honor of Johann Gottlieb Gleditsch, a German botanist who died in 1786.
It was the best wood obtainable for the purpose in that region, and they designated the tree shingle oak, a name translated into Latin by the botanist Michaux and still retained as the tree's botanical name.
Michaux, an early French botanist who explored American forests, called it American larch (Larix americana), and the name which he gave has been retained by many scientists to this day.
And yet does not the botanist like to study the flower in the soil where it grows?
Oh, to be a botanist of this vivid jungle, spread all about one, anatomist of the ribs and veins that run from the great backbone of Broadway!
In accordance with this view, the status of a botanist or a zoologist was estimated by the number of specific names, natural habitats, &c.
The first European botanist who made an extensive study of American plants in their habitats was Andre Michaux, a French botanist who traveled extensively in North America at about the close of the eighteenth century.
Each species is credited to some previous botanist and it is evident that Tournefort was a compiler rather than an original worker with grapes.
One of the varieties then named was Gaertner, in honor of the German botanist of this name.
Since this work is not written from the standpoint of the botanist but of the horticulturist, no effort has been made to revise the botany of the grape.
Prince was without question the most capable horticulturist of his time and an economic botanist of note.
Engelmann's studies are particularly valuable in that he was the first botanist working with grapes who lived in the middle west and the territory over which he ranged in his botanical expeditions was comparatively virgin.
It was later described by Parry, botanist of the Department of Agriculture, from specimens sent to him by Dr.
Bailey is the only American botanist of experience and recognized standing in general botany who has paid special attention to the grape.
Some writers give the number as less than fifty but in all territories the number seems to depend on the thoroughness with which the region has been worked over botanically, and also on the judgment of the botanist doing the work.
Since Munson is more familiar with the district lying west of the Rocky Mountains than any other botanist who has paid attention to grapes, he is probably correct.
Nearly thirty years before, Nuttall, the then famousbotanist of Harvard University, had recommended such hybridization to American grape-growers.
Such a plant would breed perfectly true, and a botanist to whom it was presented, if ignorant of its origin, might easily relegate it to a different genus.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "botanist" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: biologist; botanist; naturalist; zoologist
