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TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Recovery page 185 



Sergeants at law 186 



The power of parliament . 187 



Acts of parliament 187 



The House of Peers 187 



The House, of Commons . . 188 



The people 188 



The optimates 188 



The Chiltern Hundreds .. 189 



Shires 189 



Scottish county votes .... 189 



Innovation 189 



Freeholds 189 



Single combat 1 90 



Original electors of Ger- 

 many 190 



No new sovereign in May 190 



Government 190 



Ultraism 191 



Comparative efficacy of laws 191 



Legislation 191 



Property 191 



Misnomers 192 



Institutions of the Chinese 192 



Chinese ranks page 192 



Caste 193 



Ferintosh whiskey 193 



Insurrections 194 



Might 194 



Robbery on a large scale . 194 



National allegiance 194 



Usurpers 194 



Slaves 194 



Theassiento 195 



Judicial establishments . . 195 

 The Tread-mill, and Mill- 

 bank Penitentiary .... 195 



Abuse of laws 196 



Popularity 196 



Political nostrums 196 



To do or not to do 196 



History 197 



Circumspection 197 



Punishment 197 



National ambition 197 



Decline and fall 198 



Religious liberty 198 



BOTANY. 



Number of plants 



The flower 



Seeds 



Dormant seeds 



Elements 



Vessels 



Organs 



Germination 



The sap 



The wood 



The liber (or inner bark) 



Parenchyma 



The age of trees 



Charcoal 



The leaves 



Chemical botany 



Sunshine 



199 i Dead and living matter . . 204 



199 Poisonous plants 204 



200 | Effect of poison on plants . 204 

 200 Minimum of temperature . 205 



200 i The sleep or' plants 205 



201 ! Efflorescence 205 



201 Rapid maturity 206 



201 Dycotyledons 206 



201 Palms 206 



201 Foxglove 207 



202 Lichens 207 



202 The rose 207 



202 The hedysarum gyrans . . 208 



203 The Virginian creeper . . 208 



203 Stinging nettles 208 



203 i Bamboos 208 



20o I Rattans 209 



