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NATURE STUDY MADE EASY 



II. KINDS < 



Two cotyledons pea. 

 One cotyledon grass. 

 Small round pea. 

 Long broad bean. 

 Hairy dandelion. 

 Silky milkweed. 

 Winged maple. 

 Hooked chestnut bur. 



II. Now open pea; compare with bean, 

 melon, etc. Plant lima beans (a) in wet 

 cotton ; (6) in earth ; (c) in sand. Let 

 class observe growth and find essentials. 

 Compare bean with wheat seed only 

 one cotyledon. Plant wheat and observe. 

 Show maple seed, chestnut bur. 



MAPLE SEED 



III. USES 



To reproduce plants. 



As food bean, pea, straw- 

 berry. 



As medicine poppy. 



As clothing flax, woolly 

 hairs of cotton seed. 



III. Use of wings, hairs, hooks? (To 

 scatter seeds.) Most tropical plants have 

 one seed leaf. 



If a plant has no seed, what result? 

 Mention some seeds we can eat. Show 

 cotton seed inclosed in woolly hairs. 

 Make Drawings. 



WINDBLOWN FRUITS or DANDELION 



