JOURNAL 
OF 
The New York Botanical Garden 
Vou. I, June, 1901. No. 18. 
THE are PLANTS aa OF THE 
NOPTIC COLLECTION 
(Piares VI, VIL.) 
Considerable attention has lately been devoted to a readjust- 
re s th 
partially ee ae ae that now form the Systematic 
Museum, anc) is designed ales the plant world, from the 
to those most highly organized. 
der to display this collection 1 in an instructive manner, a 
have been installed a sis for illustrating a natural family o 
a tribe of a family. ch of these specimens is accompanied as 
far as possible by a plate, a drawin h. These 
helves are arranged additional objects such as flowers, fruits, 
woods, specimens of fossil representatives an of various 
organs of t. ts, all inten to further illustrate the struc- 
tural characteristics e different groups. lection is 
ed according to the most natural and thus far most ora 
a satisfactory interpretation of the interrelation of the plan 
families. 
The flowerless plants fall into four subkingdoms: The Myxo- 
mycetes, represented mainly by the slime-moulds: the Thal- 
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