ANALYSIS OF THE LESSONS.* 



LESSON I. BOTANY AS A BRANCH OF NATURAL HISTORY. . . p. 1 



1. Natural History, its subjects. 2. The Inorganic or Mineral Kingdom, 

 what it is : why called Inorganic. 3. The Organic world, or the world of Or- 

 ganized beings, why so called, and what its peculiarities. 4. What kingdoms 

 it comprises. 5, 6. Differences between plants and animals. 7. The use of 

 plants : how vegetables are nourished ; and how animals. 



8. Botany, how defined. 9. Physiology, and Physiological Botany, what 

 /iey relate to. 10. Systematic Botany, what it relates to : a Flora, what it is 

 11. Geographical Botany, Fossil Botany, &c., what they relate to. 



LESSON II. THE GUOWTH OF THE PLANT FROM THE SEED. p. 4. 



12. The Course of Vegetation: general questions proposed. 13. Plants 

 formed on one general plan. 14. The Germinating Plantlet : 15. exists in 

 miniature in the seed: 16. The Embryo; its parts: 17, 18. how it develops. 

 19. Opposite growth of Root and Stem : 20. its object or results : 21,22. the 

 different way each grows. 



LESSON III. GROWTH OF THE PLANT FROM THE SEED ; continued, p. 9. 



23. Recapitulation : Ascending and Descending Axis. 24, 25. The Germi- 

 nating Plantlet, how nourished. 26. Deposit of food in the embryo, illustrated 

 in the Squash, &c. : 27. in the Almond, Apple-seed, Beech, &c. : 28. in the 

 Bsan : 29. in the Pea, Oak, and Buckeye : peculiarity of these last. 30, 31. 

 Deposit of food outside of the embryo : Albumen of the seed : various shapes 

 of embryo. 32, 33. Kinds of embryo as to the number of Cotyledons : di- 

 cotyledonous : monocotyledonous : polycotyledonous. 34, 35. Plan of vegeta 

 tion. 36. Simple-stemmed vegetation illustrated. 



LESSON IV. THE GROWTH OF PLANTS FROM BODS AND BRANCHES, p. 20. 



37, 38. Branching : difference in this respect between roots and stems. 39. 

 Buds, what they are, and where situated : 40. how they grow, and what they 

 become. 41. Plants as to size and duration : herb, annual, biennial, perennial: 

 shrub : tree. 42. Terminal Bud. 43. Axillary Buds. 44. Scaly Buds. 45. 

 Naked Buds. 46. Vigor of vegetation from buds illustrated. 47 - 49. Plan 

 and arrangement of Branches : opposite : alternate. 50. Symmetry of Branches, 



* The numbers in the analysis refer to the paragraphs. 



