CONTENTS 



Page 



Foreword vii 



Wild Flowers: Where They Grow and How 

 They Are Formed 1 



Plants in their homes 2. — Plant structure 5. — 

 Pollination 18. — Fertilization 20. — The fruit 20. 

 — The names of plants 24. — The use of keys 25. 



Wild Flowers of Illinois 29 



Key to families 30. — Description of species 35-392. 



Index 393 



Botanist 



Go thou to thy learned task, 

 I stay with the flowers of spring: 

 Do thou of the Ages ask 

 What me the Hours will bring. 



Ralph Waldo Emerson 



