CONTENTS 



FAOa 



PSBPACB 3 



Introduction 9 



Chapter I. — The Leadins Pbinciple3 of Science ; — Mental and Moral 



Discipline its Aim and End 9 



Chapter II. — The Departments op Botany 12 



Chapter III. — Apparatus. — Methods op Study. 15 



Part First. — Structural Botany, or Organogkaphy 11 



Chapter I. — Primary Divisions of the Veqetable Kinodom 17 



Chapter II. — The Term op Plant Life 19 



Chapter III. — The PHiExoaAMiA ; — How Developed 22 



Chapter IV. — The Root, or Desoendins Axis 24 



Chapter V. — The Stem, or Ascendino Asis 30 



Chapter VI. — The Leap-Bud. — ^Vernation 41 



Chapter VII. — The Leap 45 



§ Phyllotaxy, or Leap-Arrangement 4B 



§ Morphology op the Leap 50 



§ Op the Stipules ' 51 



§ Op the Veins 52 



§ Form of the Leap, or Figure. ..'. 54" 



§ Margin 59 



§ Apex 69 



§ Compound Leaves GO 



Chapter VIII. — Transformations op the Leap .■ . , . 63 



Chapter IX. — Inflorescence GT 



§ Flowering 75 



Chapter X. — Morphology of the Flower ; 77 



§ jEstivation 79 



§ The Floral Organs 81 



§ The Plan of the Flower 83 



Chapter XL — The Floral Envelopes. — ^Perianth. 91 



Chapter XII— The Essential Organs 99 



§ The Stamens, or Andrceoium 99 



§ The Pistils, ok Gyn(ecium 104 



§ The Ovules 108 



