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FLOWER-LAND. 



marks which I have mentioned, and then judge the 

 plant to belong to that class with the characteristics 

 of which it most generally agrees. If you remember 

 this, and study well the table which I now give you, 

 you will seldom fail, I think, to place a British plant 

 in its proper class. 



SEEDS. 



CLASS I. 

 LEAVES. STEM. 



PARTS OF FLOWER. 



Angiosperms and ... Net- veined ; ...Exogenous ...Four or five or mul- 



Dicotyledons. in shape & tiple of five, seldom 



margin vari- three or multiple of 



ous. three. * 



CLASS II. 



Angiosperms and ... Straight- vei- ...Endogenous... Three or multiple of 



Monocotyledons, ned, shape three, seldom four, 



simple,mar- never five or mul- 



gin entire. tiple of five. 



CLASS III. 



Gymnosperms and 

 Dicotyledons or 

 Polycotyledons. 



The British plants which belong to this class 

 include the pines "and firs. The common juniper is 

 one of them, and so, as we have seen (p. 209) is the 

 common yew. Their leaves are simple and entire. 



* Multiple : A number into which the other number can be divided 

 without any remainder. Thus, six and nine are multiples of three ; 

 en is a multiple of five. 



