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wood specimens are added specimens of twigs, of flowers, 
of fruits, and of other objects of interest from the various 
trees. 
2. THE MUSEUM OF SYSTEMATIC BOTANY 
This occupies the second floor of the building, except the 
west wing, and is designed to illustrate by specimens, draw- 
ings, and photographs, types of all the natural families of 
plants, beginning with those of the simplest structure and 
ending with the most complex. It consists of four series of 
objects: 
(a) The general synoptic collection 
(b) A series of microscopes showing selected specimens 
(c) Illustrations of the local flora 
(d) Plant photograph exhibit 
(a) Synoptic Collection. This is designed to illustrate 
the plant world. A series of characteristic objects is 
installed as a basis for illustrating each plant-family. 
These specimens are accompanied as far as possible by 
plates, drawings or photographs, while on the shelves are 
arranged additional objects, such as flowers, fruits, woods, 
specimens of fossil plants, and models of various organs of 
plants, all intended further to illustrate the structural 
characteristics of the different groups. This collection is 
arranged according to the most natural and thus far most 
generally satisfactory interpretation of the interrelation of 
the plant-families; it may be considered as falling into 
two main series, namely, the flowerless or spore-bearing 
plants and the flowering or seed-bearing plants. 
The flowerless plants fall into three phyla or subking- 
doms: (1) the Thallophyta, in which the plant-body is not 
differentiated into stems and leaves, as represented by the 
slime-moulds, the bacteria and other micro-organisms, 
the seaweeds, the fungi, and the lichens (2) the Bryophyta, 
represented by the mosses and their immediate relatives; 
and (3) the Pteridophyta, including the ferns and the 
fern-allies. 
