10 DESCRIPTION OF THE THREE CLASSES. 



Flowering Plant ? just referring to the plate perhaps 

 to refresh your memory. 



Of the Third Class, (which consists of FLOWERLESS 

 Plants, you rememher) ; I will only give the names of 

 the principal orders (PL I. C.) with figures, that may 

 assist you to distinguish them from Flowering Plants, 

 when you meet with them. FERNS are the most 

 likely to puzzle you, when not in fruit, (which fruit, 

 unlike all Flowering Plants, grows on the hack of 

 the Leaf.) But hold some of the leaves to the 

 light, and you will see how differently they are veined : 

 being neither netted nor parallel, hut forked. These 

 minutely formed CRYPTO GAMIC (or Flowerless) Plants, 

 cannot be examined Botanically, without the aid of a 

 Microscope: and even then, it requires much study 

 to distinguish Species. We will therefore not attempt 

 to do more, at present, than look at, and admire the 

 wonderful perfection of form, even of the minutest 

 part: as perfect and interesting as are the lovely 

 Flowers : 



" "Where'er I cast my wandering eyes around 

 The God I seek in eVry object's found, 

 Pursuing thee, the verdant fields I pass, 

 And read thy Name in every blade of grass. 

 Beauty complete, and Majesty Divine, 

 In all thy works, adored Creator, shine." 



