CLASSIFICATION, 113 
LESSON XXIX. 
PLANTS TO BE ARRANGED IN CLASSES. 
PLANT may be studied by 
itself, as an 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 the inuu- 
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 
Re . : 
TR, ee not-only made each plant with 
G se s0 much loveliness and perfec- 
oS p 
Fig. 854. dp and tion in itself, but has assigned 
Clever Grasses. to each its proper rank in the 
system, and endowed 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 
237. What two modes of studying the plant are mentioned? In the sec- 
ond mode what discovery is made? 
238. In the systematic study of plants what two other advantages ? 
