MANUAL OF 
BRITISH BOTANY. 
FLOWERING PLANTS. 
Substance composed of cellulai- tissue, woody fibre, 
and spiral vessels. Epidermis with stomata. FloA\ ers 
with stamens and pistils. Embryo with cotyledons. 
Class I. DICOTYLEDONS. 
Stems formed of bark, wood, and pith. The wood 
furnished with medullary rays and increasing by the 
addition of concentric layers externally. Leaves 
mostly with netted veins. Cotyledons 2 or more, 
opjiosite or whorled. — Eacii floral whorl composed of 
5 or 4 parts. 
Division I. THALAMIFLOR.E. 
(Orders I.— XXI.) 
Petals distinct (rarely 0), and a.s well as the stamens growing 
separately from the sepals on tlie top of the peduncle below 
the ovary (hypogynous). 
Order I. RANUNCULACE.^:. 
Sep. 3— 6, often petal-like. Pet. 5 or more, rarely 0. Staui. 
usually many : anth. adnate, opening lengthwise. Carp, 
many, distinct, or forming a single pistil. Seeds erect or 
pendulous, albuminous. — Stip. 0, or adnate to petiole. 
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