BOTANY 



WEST-CENTEAL CALIFORNIA. 



Series I. , 



FLOWERING OR PHiENOGAMOTJS PLANTS. 



Plants producing flowers and seeds ; the former cotisisting, at least, of stamens and 

 pistils, which may be togetlier in the same flower, or they may separately form staminate 

 and pistillate flowers growing on the same individual, or different individuals of one 

 species ; the latter containing a germ, or embryo. 



fclASS I. — EXOGENS OR DICOTYLEDONS. 



Stems consisting of pith in the center, bark on the outside, and between these, fibrous 

 or woody tissue, which, in perennial stems, increases from year to year by the addition of 

 layers on the outside next the bark. Embryo usually of two opposite cotyledons, or rarely 

 with, several in a whorL 



Sub-class L — Anoiosperm& 

 Piatil consisting of a closed ovary which forma the fruit. Cotyledona two. 



