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FLOWER-LAND. 



(cf. Fig. 28 b. the fruit or seed-case containing 



seed). 



These seed leaves are not always so easily 

 seen or known. They do 

 not always expand and 

 become green like those you 

 have been looking at, and 

 you must wait until you are 

 older to understand all about 

 them. But plants which begin 

 to grow with two opposite seed 

 leaves belong to one of the 

 two great classes of flowering 

 plants. 



In the other class, the 

 seeds have only one seed- 

 leaf instead of two. It is 



Fig. 29. Seedling of Maple. 



cc its seed leaves. from this difference that these 



two classes are generally named, but the name is 

 too difficult for you to learn now, though you can 

 remember what the difference is. 



I will now tell you of another difference between 

 these two classes of flowering plants one which is 

 easier for you both to see and to understand so pick 

 me a leaf or two of the buttercup or dandelion. If 

 you can see a rose bush or an ash tree, one of their 

 leaves will be better still. Now hold the leaf up to 

 the light and see how beautifully its veins are 

 branched and make an irregular kind of network. 



