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B T A N Y 



Plants are divided into two great divisions : PIIANEIlOGAilS or plants bearing 

 more or less compk'to flowors and ])rodueinj; perfect seeds wherein an embryo is con- 

 tained ; and CllYl'TOGAMS or tlowerless plants, which have no true seed, but 

 are propagated by spores consisting of minute or uiicroscopic cells.' 



Sub-Kingdom I. CRYPTOGAMS, 



ACOTYLEDONOUS, OR FLOWERLESS PLANTS. 



Stamens and ovaries none. Propagation by means of homogeneous 

 spores, consisting of a single cell. 



CLASS I. THALLOGEXS. 



Axis of growth ixDETKUMrxATE, guowth taking place chiefly pekiphericallt 



AND IIOiaZOXTAI.LY. PlAXTS WHOLLf COMPOSED OF CELLULAR TISSUE. EePRODL'CIIVE 

 OBGAXS VAIUOCS. SpORES XOT DEVELOPING A PROTHALLUS IX GERMIXATIOX. 



Thallogens are divided into Algje, Fungi, and Lichens. 



ALGALES. 



Usually highly-coloured plants, aquatic, or natives of damp rocks, walls, etc., 

 sometimes frondose, at others reduced to a few cells or a single cell. Fructitication 

 monoecious or dioecious, sometimes of .special cells of two sexes, sometimes of 

 simple mobile spores, sometimes of antheridia and sporangia, which are free or 

 inclosed in capsules. 



The lists of the Burmese Alga;, Fungi, and Lichens arc thus given bv the 

 Rev. C. Parish. 



' The nrranf;cincnt of the Botanical portion of this work is generally tlint of ' Jl.iout and 

 Dccaisne' (Diseriptive ami ,\nal_vlical liotany, Longmans. Green auj Co., lS7li\ modilied to .suit 

 the English student by Sir J. I). Hooker, and the brief eharaeters appended to the Group of Orders 

 or ' Cohorts,' and much general information are directly derived from that work. The generic elianictcra, 

 however (where given), are based on descriptions by Kurz, and for the bulk of the specific determinations 

 and habitats Kurz is also the principal authority, and ns he had before him all Dr. Mason's materials, 

 no further special acknowledgment is necessary, save in the few instances where a species is given 

 by Mason, but not included by Kurz in his fist. The valuable assistance so freely given by the 

 Rev. C. Parish has been already elsewhere acknowledged. Tho initials A'., M., i*., respectively stand 

 for Kurz, Mason, I'arish. 



