CONTENTS. 



PAGH 



PREFACE. . . , 3 



Inthoduction 9 



Chapter I. — Tus Leading Principles of Science; — Mbktal and Moral 



Discipline its Aim and End 9 



Chapter II. — The Departments of Botany ] 2 



Chapter III. — Apparatus. — Methods of Study 15 



Part Fikst. — Structural Botany, or Organography IT 



Chapter I. — Primary Divisions of the Vegetable Kingdom 17 



Chapter II.— The Term of Plant Life 19 



Chapter IIL— The Ph^enogamia ;— How Developed 22 



Chapter IV.— The Root, or Descending Axis 24 



Chapter V. — The Stem, or Ascending Axis 30 



Chapter VI. — The Leaf-Bud. — Vernation 41 



Chapter VII. — The Leaf 4G 



§ Phyllotaxy, or Leaf-Arrangement 4fl 



§ MoRpnoLOGY of the Leaf 50 



§ Of the Stipules 51 



§ Of the Veins 53 



§ Form of the Leaf, or Figure 54 



§ Margin 59 



§ Apex 59 



§ Compound Leaves GO 



Chapter VIII. — Transformations of the Leaf C3 



Chapter IX. — Inflorescence G7 



§ Flowering 75 



Chapter X. — Morphology' of the Flower 77 



§ ./Estivation 79 



§ The Floral Organs Si 



§ The Plan of the Flower 83 



Chapter XL— The Floral Envelopes.— Perianth 91 



Chapter XIL— The Essential Organs M 



§ The Stamens, or Andriecium 99 



§ The Pistils, or Gyncecium 10 1 



§ Tns Ovules 103 



