A GENERAL VIEW. 



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this interesting part of Botany. You will look 

 forward to searching into it more thoroughly when 

 you are older. 



3. So also with the next department, as to how 

 Plants live and grow, which is called the Physiology* 

 of plants. 



4. Systematic Botany, or how plants are classified 

 and named, you know more about. You remember, 

 I hope, from Part I., about the Flowering and 

 Flowerless plants (Ch. I.), and the further divisions 

 of the Flower bearers into Classes, Natural Orders, 

 Genera, and Species (Chs. vm. to XL). 



Let us try, for instance, with a clover plant, either 

 white or red. 



Kingdom Vegetable. 



Sub Kingdom - Flowering Plants. 



Class Net-vtined (as to leaves). 



Natural Order - Butterfly Plants. 



Genus - Clover. 



Species - White or Red. 



But before we try to place and name plants, I 

 am going to tell you more about their parts, and 

 then you will be better able to understand the words 

 by which the different plants are described in 

 Systematic Botany. 



There are three other branches or departments 

 which I shall just mention. 



* From the Greek *' phusis" nature, and " logos" Teaching about 

 the nature or natural life of plants. 



