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 OF TM-- 



BOTANY 



OF THE 



NORTHERN UNITED STATES, 



SERIES I. 



PH^NOGAMOUS OR FLOWERING PLANTS. 



VEGETABLES bearing proper flowers, that is, having sta- 

 mens and pistils, and producing seeds, which contain an 

 embryo. 



CLASS I. DICOTYLEDONOUS OR EX6GE- 

 NOUS PLANTS. 



Stems formed of bark, wood, and pith ; .the wood form- 

 ing a layer between the other two, increasing, when the 

 stem continues from year to year, by the annual addition 

 of a new layer to the outside, next the bark. Leaves net- 

 ted-veined. Embryo with a pair of opposite cotyledons, 

 or rarely several in a whorl. Flowers having their parts 

 usually in fives or fours. 



SUBCLASS I. ANGIO SPERMS. 



Pistil consisting of a closed ovary, which contains the ovules and 

 fp;rms the fruit. Cotyledons only two. 



