direct, and natural relation to his subject, as he commonly meets it, that the obvious and significant features of the plant world be explained to him and be made a means of training him. The beginning pupil cannot be expected to know the fundamental physiological processes, nor is it necessary that these processes should be known in order to have a point of view and trained intelligence on the things that one customarily sees. Many a pupil has had a so-called laboratory course in botany without having arrived at any real conception of what plants mean, or without having had his mind opened to any real sympathetic touch with his environment. Even if one's knowledge be not deep or extensive, it may still be accurate as far as it goes, and his outlook on the subject may be rational.
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Fig. 87.—The Many-stemmed Thickets of Mangrove of Southern-*most Seacoasts, many of the trunks being formed of aërial roots.
