CLASSIFICATION. 



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LESSON XXIX. 



Vi-ANTS TO BE' ARRAJSftfED IN CLASSES. 



'•,'.,ANT may be studied by 

 itself, as au individual, separate 

 from other plants or objects; 

 or it may be considered in its re- 

 lations to other plants, as consti- 

 tuting a part of a system. In 

 this latter view we discover one 

 vast design embracing theinnu- 

 merable millions of plants as one 

 kingdom, leading us to adore the 

 wisdom and goodness of him 

 who planned and created the 

 world. For we see that he has 

 not only made each plant with 

 so much, loveliness and perfec- 

 tion in itself, but has assigned 

 to each its proper rank in the 

 system, and endowe'd it with just 



that nature; habit, and style of beauty, which adapts it to 



that rank. 



238. To study plants as constituting a system, as we now 



propose to do, is useful in two ways : first, it gives us a 



larger and truer conception of the Vegetable Kingdom ; and 



Fig. 864 

 Clover 



237. What two modes of studying the plant are mentioned ? In the sec- 

 ond mode what discovery is made 1 



238. In the systematic study of plants what two other advantages ? 



