16 TULIP. GENERA. SPECIES. 



EDWARD. 



I wish the Tulip had a sweet smell, it looks so 

 beautiful. 



MOTHER. 



We must not expect to find many perfections 

 united in plants, more than in other things : - 

 Those that look best are seldom the most useful. 

 Do you remember the lines our friend wrote for 

 you the other day ? 



EDWARD. 

 I believe I do ; 



For brilliant tints, to strike the eye, 

 "What plant can with the Tulip vie ? 

 Yet no delicious scent it yields, 

 To cheer the garden or the fields ; 

 In vain in gaudy colours drest, 

 'Tis rather gazed at than caress'd. 



MOTHER. 



I must now finish what I was going to say, be- 

 fore we take our walk. 



Linnaeus divided the Orders into what are called 

 Genera, and these genera again into Species. 



A GENUS, which is the singular of the word 

 Genera, is formed of a number of plants, that agree 

 with each other in the structure of their flowers 

 and fruit. 



A SPECIES includes such plants as agree in these 

 particulars, but differ in others ; as in the leaves, 

 the stem, the root, or other parts besides the flower. 



