62 FLOWER-LAND. 



5. Geographical Botany, which has to do with the 

 different places and countries in which plants grow, 

 owing to differences of soil and climate. 



6. Fossil Botany, which is about the stony 

 remains or traces of plants which are found upon or 

 in the earth, and are called fossils, f 



7. And last, a most important branch, the uses of 

 plants, or Economic Botany (Ch. XII). 



So you see what a splendid variety is before you in 

 the study of Botany. You have gone out upon your 

 terrace as it were, and seen your pleasure grounds, and 

 fields, and gardens, as useful as they are enjoyable, 

 laid out before you. Let us go down and begin to 

 enjoy them. So I am going to tell you a little more 

 about the Morphology, the Anatomy, the Physiology^ 

 and the Classification of the Flowering Plants. 



And as we go, be sure that you are not disheartened 

 by these long names. Have a good look at them, and 

 they will be like strange but interesting gateways, 

 through which you will enter into different depart- 

 ments of your property. Yours, for the country is 

 before you, and if you be as graceful in character as 

 the flowers are in form, and take care not to go where 

 you will do harm, you will not find many who will 

 refuse to let you search and enjoy almost as and 

 where you will. 



* From the Greek ge (g pronounced hard as in get) the earth, ant 

 aphe, writing. 



t From the Latin fosstfts (" fodio" I dig), dug up out of the earth. 



