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CHAPTER I. 



DECOMPOSITE ORGANS* 



Defmi* THE decomposite organs are the parts which 



just been enumerated as constituting the vegetable 

 individual, and distinguishable by external exami- 

 nation ; to the dissection of which we will now pro- 

 ceed, taking them in the retrograde order of the 

 seed, pericarp, flower, leaf, gem, and caudex, or 

 branch, stem, and root, with their decomposite ap- 

 pendages. 



SECTION I. 



The Seed. 



Its sue- IN the dissection and anatomy of the seed ni> 

 Illsseclion botanist has been so successful as Geertner. His 

 by Gasrt- wor k J)Q Scmmibus et Fructibus Plantarum, a 

 work meritorious beyond all praise, while it fur- 

 nishes the most finished model of corpologieal 

 analysis that was ever presented to the world, ex- 

 hibits also at the same time the most durable mo- 

 nnment that could have been erected of the inde- 

 fatigable industry and profound research of its 

 author ; so minute in his investigations that nothing 

 has escaped him, and so faithful in his delineations 

 that no one has ever surpassed him. Whoever, 

 therefore, wishes to become well acquainted with 



ner. 



