CHAPTER III 



ARRANGEMENT OF THE PLANTS DESCRIBED IN THEIR 

 FAMILIES OR NATURAL ORDERS 



THIS section of the Book of Nature Study has been devoted to 

 the description of between forty and fifty common Flowering 

 Plants. The student who has examined for himself a fair pro- 

 portion of these plants will have met with many others which 

 may be studied on the same lines. It was suggested at the be- 

 ginning of this section that the work it dealt with would lead 

 naturally to the naming and the classification of British flowering 

 plants with the help of a Flora. The standard Floras will be 

 found in the list of books at the end of this chapter, and it is not 

 proposed to enter into the methods of their use here. It will, 

 however, be of some value to the student who proceeds to further 

 work on these lines, and will at the same time serve as an index, 

 if the plants described above are grouped in their families or 

 natural orders and arranged as they will be met with in any 

 standard British Flora. The student will then see at a glance 

 which are the families he has already studied in at least one ex- 

 ample, and can proceed by the collection and examination of other 

 plants of the same order to widen his idea of its characters. The 

 natural orders below are arranged as in Hooker's Student's Flora. 



ANGIOSPERMS 



CLASS I. DICOTYLEDONS 

 DIVISION I. Polypetalce. 



Ranunculaceae .... Buttercup . . vol. 3 page 89 



Lesser Celandine . ,,3 115 



Papaveraceae .... Red Poppy . . 4 21 



Cruciferae Lady's Smock . 3 120 



Charlock . . 3 209 



Shepherd's Purse . ,,3 ,, 212 



