FLOWER-LAND. 



CHAPTER VIII. 



CLASSES AND NATURAL ORDERS. 



You have already learnt some- 

 thing about the chief parts of 

 flowering plants, and about the 

 way in which they grow. I 

 must now tell you something 

 about the way in which they 

 are arranged and named. 



When you begin to try and 

 find out the names of plants, 

 you will find that they are 

 arranged, first of all, into three 

 great divisions, which are called 

 classes. We shall leave one of 

 them until you are older. The 

 remaining two classes are 

 known from each other by 

 Fig. 27. Part of Foxglove several differences, but at 



(Digitalis purpurea), show- _ M1 . , 



ing net-veined leaves & root, present I will only tell you 



about two of them. 



One difference is in the way the seed begins to 

 grow. Perhaps you have sown mustard seed ; and 



