VI TABLE OP CONTENTS. 



Plants Oflice of Nitrogen in the Atmosphere Animals 

 resemble Lamps Carbonic Acid Two things required to 

 keep animals alive Fable of Saadi Four elementary prin- 

 ciples Curious mode of living in butterfly flowers Stom- 

 achs of Plants Purification of the sap by the leaves Odors 

 Glands Poisons Medicines Life power only can make 

 vital products Parisian chemist?. 



III. 



Meaning of Botany Number of species known Definition of 

 a species Varieties Genera how formed Marks of the 

 Rose genus What constitutes a genus Specific differences 

 Number of genera Higher modes of grouping First ten 

 classes of Linneus how known Derivation of the name of 

 each Similar prefixes used in ordinary language Remain- 

 ing fourteen classes Orders of the first thirteen classes how 

 formed Class and Order of the Lily Linnean System but 

 an introduction to the Natural First Class Song of the 

 Monandrian Tribes Second Class Song of the Diandrian 

 Tribes Third Class Food better than riches illustrated 

 Song of the Triandrian Tribes. 



IV. 



Flowers in the Class Tetrandria Southey's Lines on the 

 Holly Song of the Tetrandrian Tribes Number of Flow- 

 ers in Pentandria Rough leaved plants Forget Me Not 

 Bindweed Tribe Potato family poisonous Tubers of the 

 Hemlock Tribe eaten like the Potato Modifying of poison- 

 ous plants Song of the Pentandrian Tribes Class Hexan- 

 dria Mono-Cotyledones Nature provides for the seed as 

 she does for the young chicken Di-Cotyledones Poly-Co- 

 tyledones A-Cotyledones Flowers in Hexandria Nar- 

 cissus Song of the Hexandrian Tribes Class Heptane] ria 

 Horse Chesnut Chick Weed Wintergreen Song of the 

 Heptandrian Tribes. 



