THE FLOWERING PLANT. 63 



And thus is finished the journey of the bean ; here 

 it lies safe and sound within its little cup, with the co- 

 tyledons all packed ready for a tour when the weather 

 gets bright and warm in the spring-time. Now, what 

 kind of a plant is the bean ? Not a fungus, because it is 

 green like protococcus, and needs the sunshine, so it 

 must be a green plant ; but it is different from proto- 

 coccus, because it bears flowers, and the protococcus 

 does not : hence, we must not only call it a green 

 plant, but a flowering plant. 



These are only a few of the many things there are 

 to learn about a simple bean-stalk. Who would have 

 thought that it took so much hard study just to " know 

 beans ? " 



