CHAPTER XXI 



PHANEROGAMA, OR FLOWERING PLANTS CON- 

 STRUCTION OF FERTILIZING ORGANS SEEDS 

 GERMINATION CUTTINGS. 



THE higher order of plants, the Phanerogama, 

 include all the plants that bear flowers, and therefore 

 include all grasses, herbs, shrubs, bushes and trees, 

 and such water plants that, although living in the 

 water, bear flowers that bloom only in the air. The 

 plants, without exception, contain chlorophyll, though 

 but a small and unimportant part of the flowers them- 

 selves contain it. The florescence of the plant con- 

 sists in the growth and development of the organs 

 that are essential to the formation of the fruit, or seeds, 

 in which lie the potency of the continuance of a new 

 plant life. 



Although the variety is almost infinite in the ap- 

 pearance and detail of construction of the tens of 

 thousands of different flowers that exist, yet they all 

 contain the same essential features. All have the 

 same functions to perform. We can readily recognize 



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