CONTENTS. 



INTRODUCTIOBf. 



Advantages of Botanioal study — Early associations — The Founda- 

 tion for our Lessons — Common^t Wayside Weeds selected — 

 The Plan 1—6 



HAITDFUL I. 



Weeds are Flowers — The Handful — Poppies — Buttercups and 

 Marsh Marigold — ^Wallflower an^ Lady's Smock — Violets — 

 Lychnis — Stitchwort — Ohickweed and Wild Geranium— Parts 

 of a Flower generally couBldered — Petals or Flower-leaves — 

 How attached^Their shape and parts — A Corolla — Stamens, 

 their site, and how distinguished — Pistil or central organ j its 

 forms — Calyx; its forms — Position of parts of Flowers in 

 Handful — Likeness and difference — Buttercups and Crowfoots 

 — Poppy characters — WalMowers and Cruciform Plants — 

 Begular Flowers — Summary 7 — 28 



HANDFUL IL 



Broom Blossoms, and Gorse or Whin— Clovers and Vetches— Haw- 

 thorn and Apple Blossoms— Strawberry and Bramble — Hem- 

 lock tribes — Saxifrage and Willow herbs^AU many-petaled — 

 Distinctions from Handful I. — Characters of Pea tribe — Eose 

 tribe — Hemlock or Umbel-bearing tribe — Parts of a Flower 

 specially considered — Calyx — Corolla — Stamens — Pistil — A 

 perfect Flower 29—60 



