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all your notes on one plant, if they overflow 

 the space you originally provided for them. 



Suppose you have returned from a walk with 

 half a dozen plants in your collecting-case. 

 You will first of all examine and identify these 

 by your Flora, and then will come the time for 

 making notes. 



Write the English name of the plant at the 

 top of the page (and Latin also, if desired) and 

 in addition the Family to which it belongs. 

 The locality and the date should follow, with 

 any details concerning the soil, environment, 

 or the exact nook if the plant is at all uncom- 

 mon. Chapter IV, on "How to Study Plant 

 Life," will give you hints on their proper ex- 

 amination, and you will also find there a list 

 of signs and abbreviations that will greatly 

 reduce the labor of making notes. The usual 

 order in which the parts of a plant are de- 

 scribed in a Flora is as follows : Eoot, stem, 

 leaves, flowers, fruit and seed. The same 

 order should be maintained in the Nature Note- 

 book. Hairs, bracts, thorns, stipules and other 

 appendages also receive notice when present. 

 It is not always necessary to abbreviate the 



