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THE songs late OF PLANTS. 
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this work, som 
the limited space allowed, the principal facts ton only 
those very briefly. Those who desire to be m re fully Se epg = 
this subject, are referred to the admirable es ond why . Gray. His 
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scientific elementary wo 
1. The rial word) is divided into Unorganized (or Inorganic) 
earn: an 1 Organized (or Organic) beings. ‘The mineral 
pi the water belong to ths first, and plante and 
mals rs shen nina of gk divisions. Unorga: nized substances have 
neither life nor owth, and are without parts or organs adapted to. 
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a simple germ, and go through pro e stages of Spiny gine 
are furnished wit! 3 or organs which have particular ae 
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perform, ite Ka in promoting the growth of the intial on or in per- 
nized beings are of two kinds, Vegetables and Animals. A 
table e or plant m may be defined as a being which converts the unor- 
als are consumers 0: ies 
tudy of plants in all that relates to their growth and repro- 
duction, “thelr resemblance to and difference from one another in the 
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arrangement of their parts, ribution over the 
rth’s surface, and whatever relates to the history of a plant, constitutes 
the science of Botany. The science is divi veral departments ; 
or 
organs is Structural Botany—that branch of the science of which we 
i sive a brief ‘outline in the soto wine pete 
: Ist, ag which have manifest, 
wers i nt ys Fler or Phen 
its; 2d, — ee ae a flowers and no proper seeds, 
