TABLE OF CONTENTS 



Introduction 



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1 



Departments of Scientific Botany 2 



Departments of Economic Botany 3 



Pharmaceutical Botany 3 



Order of Subjects * 5 



Anthology 5 



The General Nature of the Flower 



5 



The Essential Organs and their Parts 10 



The Non-Essential Organs 11 



The Modifications of Floral Structure Classified 13 



The Laws of Floral Structure, (number, position, form and size, separa- 

 tion and union of parts) 13 



The Perigone. . . 

 The Androeoium 



20 



27 



The Gyna>cium ". 31 



Forms of the Style. . 

 Forms of the Stigma 



32 

 32 



Structure and Forms of the Ovary 34 



Positions of the Ovule 



Structure and Forms of the Ovule 



35 



36 



The Torus 37 



The Disk 



Pollination 



38 

 89 



Fertilization 43 



Carpology 44 



Changes Produced by Fertilization in Ovary and Ovule 44 



Functions of the Fruit and their Performance 46 



Structure of the Fruit 47 



Classification of Fruits, with Key 51 



Structure and Forms of the Seed 57 



The Embryo 57 



Germination 



58 



