14 NATURE STUDY. 



First. We have broadened our knowledge of plant 

 forms by studying several plants. 



Second. We have increased our interest in the struc- 

 ture of plants by studying variations in form and 

 structure. 



Third. We have learned to use our powers of obser- 

 vation more accurately. 



Fig. 9. Anemone Flower and Fruit. 



Fourth. We have learned to express ourselves bet- 

 ter; to increase our power of telling what we see and 

 know. 



Fifth. We have developed our power to compare, 

 to discriminate between essentials and non-essentials in 

 structure, to group and classify. We have learned to 

 think, as well as to see and tell, and so to arrange 

 or relate our thoughts that one thing shall stand in 

 our minds as a type of many. 



Yet even in studying the dandelion as a plant form in 



