COANE EAN ES 
i. INTRODUCTORY 
Former Notions respecting Plant-Life—Linnean Axiom 
—The new Botany—Senses of Plants—The raison d’étre 
of Form, Colour, and Perfume—Plant Intelligence 
II. ROSES AND APPLES 
The Garden Rose a Monstrosity—Wild Roses—Structure 
of Rose-Trees and their Flowers—Fertilisation—‘‘ Hips” 
—Seeds: their Dispersion—Birds and Fruits—Apples— 
Cross - Fertilisation —Crab-Apples—Wild Pear—Medlar— 
Rowan—Hawthorn—Arrangement and Forms of Leaves— 
Cinquefoils—Strawberry—Origin of the Strawberry—Herb 
Bennet: its Hooked Seeds—Agrimony—Brambles: their 
Varieties— How Species arise— Blackthorn and Sloe— 
Plums—Cherry—Lady’s Mantle—Dropwort and Meadow- 
Sweet—Salad Burnet . : - : ‘ : 
Ill. BUTTERCUPS AND COLUMBINES 
Lesser Celandine—Thrifty Plants—Origin oi Tuberous 
Roots—Buttereups—The Significance of Leaf-Form—The 
Purpose of Acrid Juices—Spearworts and Goldielocks— 
Globe-Flower and Marsh Marigold-—-Anemone and Pasque- 
flower — Meadow Rues — Forsaken by Insects — Wild 
Clematis—How it rises in the World—Mousetail: its 
Economy —Columbines and Bees — Fraudulent Honey- 
Seekers—Larkspur and Monkshood— ea arte 
Flowers run Risks 
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