ANALYSIS OF THE LESSONS.* 



LESSON I. — Botany as a Branch op Natural History. . . p. 1. 



1. Natural History, its subjects. 2. The Inorganic or Mineral Kingdom, 

 what It is : why called Inorganic. 3. The Organic world, or the world of Or- 

 ganized beings, why so called, and what its peculiarities. 4. "What kingdoms 

 it comprises. 5, 6. Differences between plants and animals. 7. The use of 

 plants : how vegetables are nourished ; and how animals. 



8. Botany, how defined. 9. Physiology, and Physiological Botany, what 

 Aey relate to. 10. Systematic Botany, wliat it relates to : a Flora, what it is. 

 11. Geographical Botany, Fossil Botany, &c., what they relate to. 



liESSON II. — The Growth op the Plant from the Seed. . p. 4. 



12. The Course of Vegetation : general questions proposed. 13. Plants 

 formed on one general plan. 14. The Germinating Plantlet : 15. exists in 

 miniature in the seed: 16. The Embryo; its parts : 17, 18. how it develops. 

 19. Opposite growth of Root and Stem : 20. its object or results : 21, 22. the 

 different way each grows. 



LESSON III. Growth op the Plant from the Seed ; continued, p. 9. 



23. JBecapitulation : Ascending and Descending Axis: 24, 25. The Germi- 

 nating Plantlet, how nourished. 26. Deposit of food in the embryo, illustrated 

 in the Squash, §iC« : 27. in the Almond, Apple-seed, Beech, &c. ; 28. in the 

 Bean: 29. in the Pea, Oak, and, Buckeye : peculiarity of these last. 30, 31. 

 Deposit of food outside of tlie embryo : Albumen of the seed : various shapes 

 of embryo. 32, 33. Kinds of embryo as to the number of Cotyledons : di- 

 cotyledonous : monocotyledonous : polycotyledonous. 34, 35. Plan of vegeta- 

 tion. 36. Simple-stemmed vegetation illustrated. 



LESSON IV. The Growth of Plants from Buds and Branches, p. 20. 



37, 38. Branching : difference in this respect between roots and stems. 39. 

 Buds, what they ai-e, and where situated : 40. how they grow, and what they 

 become. 41 . Plants as to size and duration : herb, annual, biennial, perennial : 

 shrub : tree. 42. Terminal Bud. 43. Axillary Buds. 44. Scaly Buds. 45. 

 Naked Buds. 46. Vigor of vegetation from buds illustrated. 47 - 49. Plan 

 and arrangement of Branches : opposite : alternate. 50. Symmetry of Branches, 



* The numbers in the analysis refer to the paragraphs. 



