CONTENTS. 



PASS 



f RBPAOE 3 



iNTRODnCTION 9 



Chapter I. — The Leadinq Peinoiples of Science ; — Mental and Moral 



Discipline its Aim and End 9 



Chapter II. — ^Thb Departments of Botany 12 



Chapter IIL — Apparatus. — Methods op Study 15 



Part First. — Structural Botany, or Orsanogkaphy IT 



Chapter I. — Primary Ditisions of the Tegetaele Kincdom 17 



Chapter II. — The Term op Plant Life 19 



Chapter III. — The PafiNOGAMiA ; — How Developed 22 



Chapter TV. — The Root, or Descending Axis 24 



Chapter T. — The Stem, oe Ascending Axis 30 



Chapter TI. — ^The Leaf-Bud. — ^Teenation 41 



Chapter VII. — The Leaf : 46 



§ Phyllotaxy, or Leaf-Arrangement 4fi 



§ Morphology op the Leaf 60 



§ Op the Stipules 51 



§ Of THE Veins 52 



§ Form op the Leaf, or Figure 54 



§ Margin 59 



§ Apex 59 



§ Compound Leaves 60 



. , tOhaptee VIII. — Transformations of the Leap 63 



Chapter IS. — Inflorescence 6T 



§ Flowering 1-5 



Chapter X. — Morphology op the Flower 11 



§ ^Estivation 19 



§ The Floral Organs 81 



§ The Plan of the Flower 83 



Chapter 21. — The Floral Envelopes. — Perianth. 91 



Chapter XII.— The Essential Organs 99 



§ The Stamens, or Andrcecium 99 



§ The Pistils, or Gyncecium 104 



§ The Ovules 108 



