42 METHOD OF ANALYSIS, 



before a, o, and w. The soft sound of c is like 5, the hard sound 

 like k. The soft sound ofg is like j, the hard sound like g in 

 the word gave; thus Algae is pronounced Al-je. 



Musci Mus-si. 



The letters ch are hard like k, as in Orchis; pronounced 

 Or-kis. 



LECTURE VI. 



Method of analyzing plants by a series of comparisons. Gene- 

 ral remarks upon plants. Method of preserving Plants for 

 an Herbarium. Poisonous Plants, and those which are not 

 poisonous. 



WHEN we dissect a plant, or examine separately each of its 

 organs, this is properly analysis; for the meaning of the word 

 analysis is a separation; but when we speak of finding out 

 plants by analyzing them, we mean something more than ex- 

 amining each part of the flower; this is indeed the first step in 

 the process ; but by means of observing these organs, we are 

 to ascertain the Class, Order, Genus, and lastly the Species of 

 the plant. " A person engaged in ascertaining the myne of a 

 plant, may be said to be upon a BotanicalJourney, and the plant 

 being his Directory ; if he can read the botanical characters 

 impressed on it by the hand of Nature, he will, .by following 

 system, soon arrive at his journey's end."* 



In the first place we have two comparisons to make. 



1st. Whether the Stamens and Pistils are VISIBLE; or, 



2nd. Whether they are INVISIBLE. 



IF the Stamens and Pistils are not visible, we have already 

 arrived at the class which is CRYPTOGAMIA. 



If, however, the Stamens and Pistils are visible, we have 

 now two comparisons to make. 



1st. Whether the Stamens and Pistils are enclosed in the 

 same corolla ; or, 



2nd. Whether the Stamens and Pistils are placed on differ- 

 ent corollas. 



If the Stamens and Pistils are on different flowers, we then 

 shall find oupplant either in the class Di&cia, or Moncecia ; ac- 

 cording as the Stamens and Pistils are on different flowers, pro- 

 ceeding from the same root, or from different roots. 

 * Thornton. 



The letters ch Meaning of the word analysis How used in botany What 

 two comparisons to be first made in analyzing a plant When the stamens and 

 pistils are visible. 



