OUTLINES OF BOTANY, REE 
piven with technical terms which tends rather to confusion than 
clea In this he will be more or ser ——— The aptness of a 
bot fendead: ett. i li ke the beauty of a work of imagination, will always 
vary with the style and genius of the ees, 
§ 1. The Plant in General. 
e Plant, in its botanical sense, includes every being which 
rept Uife, from mg Page tree which adorns our landscapes, to the 
humble whic n its stem, to the mould or _fangus which 
attacks ee spntoshh seminal ao hs green scum that floats on our ponds. 
7. Every portion of a plant which has a distinct at or function to 
perform in the operations or phenomena of vegetable life is called an 
an 
8. What constitutes vegetable life, and what are the functions of each 
organ, belong to Vegetable Physiology; the microscopical structure of the 
i egetab ; iti 
lan 
9. In the more perfect plants, a organs are cope in the general 
terms Root, Stem, Leaves, Flowers, and Fruit. Of these ~ first three, 
whose function is to assist in the growth of the plant, are Organs of 
Vegetation; the flower and fruit, whose office is the femation. of the seed, 
ll these organs shape or another, at some period of 
the life of most, if not aL: rs 7 alone poopy called phaenogamous 
or phanerogamous plants ; which all bear e kind of flower and fruit in 
the botanical sense of the term. In the ae classes, the ferns, —— 
fungi, moulds or mildews, seaweeds, etc., called by botanists ba tongir 
plants, the pcneet the fruit, and not aetrcaubotty one or more of the 
organs of vegetation, are either wanting, or behest by organs so aitecsnt 
to be hardly capable of bearing the same 
1B ie hago comprised in the follow wing pages refer eine 
to the flowering or phaenogamous plants. The study of the e cryptogamo 
ee has now become so rier nan grmgt as to form asia a separate cer 
are therefore not inclu in these introductory ee ee nor, 
wih 2. Pa ee of ferns rine their allies, in the present Flor 
Mon ocarpic, if they die pains riggs flowering-season. These > gr 
mss age which flower in the e year in which they are raised fro 
“eh on pac ee atiek caly fe flower in the year following that in a 
clude ihasaus piles 2% rei which the greater part of the plant Soe 
Hillebrand, Flora of the Hawaiian Islands. 
