CONTENTS. Vll 



Stems — Winged Steins — Undergromid Stems — Stems ap- 

 parently absent — ^Boota — Fibrous and Branched — Fleshy 

 Roots— Tuberous Eoots— Office of Roots . . . 123—149 



HANDrUL VI. 



Composed of Plants with Straight-veined Leaves — Snowdrop — 

 Crocus — Tulip — Orchis— Wild Garlic and Black Bryony — The 

 Perianth — ^Yellow Iris, or Water-Flag — Petal-like Pistils — Herb 

 Paris — Structure of Orchis Blossom — Vegetable Structure — 

 Cells and Vessels — Spiral Vessels — Vascular and Cellular Tis- 

 sue of Leaf . .151 — 164 



HANDFUL VIL 



Plants with Straight-veined Leaves and Petal Flowers — Plants 

 with Straight-veined Leaves and Scale Flowers — The Scale 

 Flowered or Q-lumaceous Plants — Common Rush — Wood Rush 

 and Bog Asphodel — Their Characters — Flowering Rush and 

 Wake-robin — Duckweed — The Sedge Tribe — Gtrasses and 

 Grass Blossoms — Plant Clothing — The Epidermis or Skin — 

 Hairs — Breathing Pores or Stomates. • . . 165 — 185 



A BUNDLE OF FERNS. 



Ferns well known — Their elegance — Characterized by the absence 

 of Floral Development — Spores, and Spore or Seed cases — The 

 varying form of Ferns — Peculiar mode of Early Growth — 

 Fern gathering — The Male Fern — Lady Fern — Hart's-tongue 

 — Brake or Bracken — Polypody and its spores — Spleenwort — 

 Moonwort — Horse-tail and Adder's-tongue — Characters com- 

 mon to Ferns — Oaudex, or Root-stalk — Stipe— Rachis and 

 Pinnse — Sori — Spores and Spore cases-r-Exceptions to position 

 of Spores 187—204 



