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Home Nature-Study Course. 



LESSON CXLIV. 



the violet plant. 



Purpose. — To call attention to the great variation in the shape of 

 the leaves of different species of violets. 



This should be a lesson for the cultivation of close observation. As 

 drawing is the best means of knowing whether a pupil sees accurately 

 or not, it would be well for the pupils to draw first, the different shaped 

 leaves that they find on one species of violet, and then make drawings of 



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The violet in blossom. 



the leaves of all the other species in the locality. If the pupils are suffi- 

 ciently skilled in drawing, water color pictures of the different species of 

 violets would prove a most interesting task. 



References. — " Seed Dispersal," Beal, p. 59 ; " Blossom Hosts and 

 Insect Guests," Gibson, p. 16; "Nature's Garden," Blanchan ; "Field 

 Book of American Wild Flowers," Mathews ; " Nature-Study and the 

 Child," Scott, pp. 613 and 615. 



THE'HEPATICA. 



Preliminary Work. — There should he polted in the schoolroom a vigorous 

 hepatica plant, taken from its place in the woods in the late fall or very early 

 spring. Children are so fond of this favorite flower, that they will watch the 

 development of the blossoms eagerly, and the points in the following lessons may 



