CONTENTS. 



HANDFUL III. 



The PlantB of the Handful— Honeysuckle and Bluebell, Daisy, 

 Thistles, Wild Chamomile, Eagwort, and CoH's-foot— Elder 

 Flower — The Bedstraws — The one-pieoed, or one-petaled, or 

 Monopetalous CoroUa — Composite Blossoms — The Composite 

 Family — The Inflorescence or Flower arrangement — The Scape 

 and Eachis — The Capitnlum — The Spike — The Axillary 

 Flowers— The Eaceme— The Umbel— The Panicle — The Cat- 

 kin—The 'Whorl— Grlomerulus, Spathe, and Cyme— Bracts 



61—90 



HANDFUL IV. 



A Handful of faTOurites-^iThey are One-petaled — Distinction from 

 Handful III. — Our Botanical position in Handful IV. — Free 

 and Attached Stamens — Primroses and Forget-me-nots — Pirn* 

 pernel and Loosestrife — The Primula tribe — Speedwell and 

 FIgworts — The Labiates or Lipped Flowers — ConvolTulus and 

 Plantain — Leaves — Their Infinite -Variety — Parts of the Leaf 

 — Ribs and Veins — Netted Veins and Straight Veins — Com- 

 pound Leaves and Simple Leaves — Leaf Surfaces, etc. — Cut- 

 ting of Leaves — Stemless or Sessile Leaves — Seed-leaves — Leaf- 

 bnds 91—122 



HANDFUL V. 



Little of outside beauty in Handful V. — Docks and Knot-grass — 

 The Spurges— Starwort— Forest Trees— Characters of Hand- 

 ful — The Blossoms incomplete — Knot-grass or Bistort charac- 

 ters-Spurge characters— Starwort and Wall Pellitory— Trees 

 of the Greenwood — Simple character of their Blossoms — 

 WiUow, Hazel, Birch, etc.— Pine tribes — Stem and Eoot— 

 Aerial Boots — Herbaceous or green, and Woody Stems — Grass 

 and Palm Stems — Twining or Climbing Stems— Sliape of 



