CONTENTS. 



Preface 



Directions to Teachers 



Roles for Pronouncing 

 Names 



PAGE 



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Botanical 



LECTURE 1.— Importance of System.— Ad- 

 vantages to be derived from the Study of 

 BoRin'y.— Division of the Lectures 9 



PART I. 



LECTURE II.— General Division of Sciences. 

 — Dejiartments of Botanical Science. — 

 Parts of a Flower. — Analysis of Plants . . 13 



LECTURE III.— Method of analyzing Plants. 

 — Analysis of the Pink, Lily, Rose, and 

 Popfiy 15 



LECTURE IV. — Classes and Orders of Lin- 



meus 19 



LECTURE v.— Method of analyzing Plants 

 by a Series of < omparisons. — GeneraJ Re- 

 marks upon Plants, &c ~3 



PAGE 

 Method of Jussieu.— Comparison between 

 the Classifications of Tournefort, Linnasas, 



and Jussieu H" 



LECTURE XXIIL— Characters used in Clas- 

 sification 123 



LECTURE XXIV.— Use of Potanical Names. 

 —Artificial Classes and Orders considered 

 in Groups. — Classes Monandria and Lian- 



dria • 1^7 



LECTURE XXV. — Triandria.— Tetrandria . . 132 



LECTURE XXVI.— Pentandria 139 



LECTURE XXVII. — Hexandria; — Heptan- 



dria 147 



LECTURE XXVIII. — Octandria. — Ennean- 



dria 152 



LECTURE XXIX.— Decandria 15G 



LECTURE XXX.— Icosandria.— Polyandria . 159 

 LECTURE XXXI. — Didynamia. — Tetrady- 



namia 165 



LECTURE XXXII.— Monadelphia 168 



LECTURE XXXIII.— Diadelphia 171 



LECTURE XXXI V.— Synsrenesia 175 



PART II. 

 LECTURE VI.— Importance of observing ex- 

 ternal Objects. — Vegetables consist of two 



Sets of Orsans.— Of the Root 



LECTURE VII.— Stem 



LEt rURE VIIL— Buds 



LKCTURE IX.— Leaves 



LECTURE X.— Anatomy and Physiology of 

 Leaves.— Their Use in the Vegetable Sys- 

 tem.— Fall of the Leaf.— Appendages to 

 Plants 



LEC PURE XI.— Calyx 



LECTURE XII.— Corolla 



LECTURE XIII.— Stamens and Pistils 



LE TURE X v.— Inflorescence 



LECTURE \V.— The Fi-uit. — Pericarp. — 

 Parts of the Pericarp.— Mirbel's Cla.ssifica- 

 tioM of Fruits 



LECI'URE \ VI. —The Seed. — Synopsis of 

 the Externa! Organs of Plants 



LECTURE XVIl.— Theory of Metamorphosis 

 of Orgiins of Plants 



LECTURE \' VIIL— Physiological Views.— 

 Germination of the Seed 



LECTURE X I \'. — Physiological Views.- 

 Elementary Organs or Vegetable Tissues. 

 —Solid and Fluid Parts of Vegetables 



LECTURE XX. — Physiological \ ievvs. — 

 Bark. — Wood. — Pith. — Growth of a 

 Dicotyledonous Plant.— Growth of a Mon- 

 ocot vledonous Plant 107 



LECTURE XXI. — Physiological Views.— 

 Chemical Composition of Plants. — Pro.xi- 

 mate Principles. — Chemical Analysis of 

 the Sap 114 



PART III. CLASSIFICATIOX. 



LECTURE XXTL— Method of Tournefort.— 

 System of Linnaius. — Natural Methods. — 



81 



94 



101 



-Syns 

 LECTURE XXXV.— Gynandria. 

 LECTURE XXXVI.— Monoecia.—Dicecia 

 LECTURE XXXVII.— Cryptogamia 



180 

 182 

 187 



PART IV. 



LECTURE XXXVIIL— The Flowering Sea- 

 sons of Plants 194 



LECTURE XXXIX. — Habits of Plants.— 

 Agents which aflect their Growth. — Their 

 Habitations. — Geographical Situations. — 

 Elevation corresponding to Latitude 202 



LECTUKE XL.— Plants as affected by Culti- 

 vation.— Change of Organs.— Diseases.— 

 Economical Uses 209 



LECTURE XLI. — History of Botany from 

 the Creation of the World to the Dis- 

 covery of America 214 



LECTURE XLII.— History of Botany from 

 the beginning of the 16th Century to the 

 time of Linmeus. — From the time of Lin- 

 naeus to the present ' 222 



LECrURE XLllL — General Views of Na- 

 ture. — Organized and Inorgauized Bodies. 

 — Classification of Animals 233 



PART V. 



The Natural System of Classification 



Po'iypetalous Orders 



Monopetalous Orders 



Apetalous Orders 



243 

 245 



207 

 278 



PART VI. 



Genera referred to Natural Orders 27 



Description of Genera 34 



Description of Species 69 



Inde.\ and Vocabulary 1™ 



Symbolical Language of Flowers 203 



Common Names of Plants 21 'i 



