LESSONS 1\ I'KNMANSHII'. 



I! 1.1:1 t.i i- !:!.! lii" 'uorol oharactoriftticii of the Ranun- 

 up in our tttandard of comparison, 

 ral appearance* may alter without the 

 J characteristics being interfered with. 

 plant is apparently more unlike the buttercup than the 

 holcss, it will bo found on dissection to present 

 ; iioteristios of a ranunculaoeoua plant 

 lifferont, again, from the buttercup are the 

 i fir utruoture at once points out the family 

 t.. \\liich they belong. 



lint the Larkspur tribe, including the Delphinium, differ 

 BO greatly in appearance from the yellow buttercup, that none 

 but iliu botanist can see any alliance between them. To his 



educated eye, bowerer, the affinity in erident. The 

 stance in reference to which the term larkspur i* given depend* 

 open a carious formation of one of the sepals of the ealyx, 

 something like the par on a bird's foot ; but it i* ft con- 

 dition of less botanical importance, that riiUlif to indicate 

 a genus, not an order ; and colour is of still leas hotaniosl im- 

 portance. Inside the sepals or ealyx of ft larkspur are foor 

 petals strangely shaped, two of them baring long tails. Thus 

 the larkspur wears a complete mask ; bnt the botanist at one* 

 recognises the order by the essential signs of apocarpous fruit 

 and hypogynous stamens; and once recognised, once referred to 

 BanonoulacesD, larkspurs would be justly held in suspicion ft* 

 poisonous plants, a character which they richly deserve. 



COPY-BUT NO. 81. AOINCOUIir, l-U.%. 



COfl'-SMl' NO. 82. BATHUiUT IN AF1UCA. 



COPY-SLIP NO. 83. CANADA WAS DISCOVERED, 1497. 



COPY-SLIP NO. 84. DEVONPORT, A ROYAL DOCKYARD IN DEVON. 



LESSONS IN PENMANSHIP. XX1T. 



IN our now and advanced series of Copy-slips, in addition to the 

 small letters of the writing alphabet in four different sizes, the 

 reader will find examples of all the various kinds of capital 

 letters in general use, as well as the forms of the numerals or 

 symbols used to denote numbers. It is impossible to classify 

 the different elementary forms of which the capital letters of 

 the writing alphabet are composed, as we did in the case of the 

 small letters given in our first series in larje text; but it will ho 

 seen, on comparing the different capitals, that the prevailing 

 strokes are the long curved up-stroke with which the letter A i* 

 commenced, the thick down-stroke with which it i* completed, 

 the thick down-stroke with which the letters B and D are 

 commenced a stroke which enters into the composition of the 

 majority of the capital letters and the curved down-stroke 

 turned at the top and bottom, of which the letter C is mainly 



composed. The learner should practise writing each capital by 



itself in order to gain facility in forming them, as the 



curves of which these letters are composed differ 



from the somewhat stiff and regular succession of up-sl 



and down-strokos, all on the same inclination or slope, tni 



has hitherto been in the habit of making. Instead 



our readers a simple name or word to copy u 



or a precept or proverb in the smaller hands, "Jj " 



done in copy-books, we hav. endeavoured to letl bef or 



each copy-slip some fact that he will do well to bear i rr. 



Thus, after copying Copy-slip No. 81 -erne dose 



never forget when the battU of Aginoourt took place ;whde 



Copy-slip No. 82 will, in all probability, cause him to turn to 



his "Gazetteer- or "AtlaV if he have <- * nnd wheth 



there be any more Bathursts on the worid surface l^?"-* 



which happens to be the principal settlenumt ui the Br 



colony, at the mouth of the river Gambia, in Western Africa. 



