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may, in the course of one summer, get a tolerable knowledge of two or three 
hundred plants, and be taught to assign these to their proper classes and orders in 
the system of Linnaeus. 
" The best way to learn the dozen terms is to get any flower, such as a lily, a 
primrose, or a buttercup, and have somebody who knows the several parts, and 
their names, to go ove them once and again, naming them each time till the pupil 
has them perfect. 
" The twelve main terms of Botany. 
" 1. On the outside of the primrose a green sort of cup is seen, in which the 
coloured part stands as an egg does in an egg-cup. This tlie learner may call the 
Jlower-cup, but botanists call it by the Greek name, CalijcV. 
" 2. Within this flower-cup, or calyx, which may be cut off to show what it con- 
tains, is seen the coloured part of the flower, the part, I mean, which is yellow in 
the primrose, blue in the violet, and red in the rose. The learner may call the 
coloured part the blossom^ but botanists call it by the Latin name, Corolla. 
" 3. The blossom, or corolla, may now be cut off, when it will be seen in the 
primrose to be of one piece, while in the rose and other flowers it is of several pieces 
or leaves. The learner may call each of the pieces a Jiower-leaf, but botanists call 
it a Petal. 
" 4. Within the flower-leaf, or petal^ in the primrose, fine small bodies may be 
seen standing round in a circle, with little tips somewhat shaped like a barley-corn, 
though not nearly so large, and a slender stalk to support these. Each of the fine 
small bodies the learner may call a male, but botanists call it a Stamen. 
" 5. The male part, or stamen, has two parts, an under and an upper part. The 
learner may call the under part the stalk, but botanists call it the Filament. 
" 6. The learner may call the upper part of the male the tip, but botanists call 
it the Anther. 
^' 7- When the tip, or anther, of the male is broken or bursts, as it always does 
of itself as soon as it is ripe, a coloured powder is seen, which the learner may call 
the tip- dust, but botanists call it Pollen. 
" 8. When the calyx, the corolla, and the stamens are all cut away, the centre 
part of the flower alone will remain on the top of the stem. This part the learner 
may call the female^ but botanists call it the Pistil. 
9. The female, or pistil, may be said to consist of a base, a middle, and a top. 
The base of the pistil is always more or less bulged out, and from its containing the 
seeds the learner may call it the seed-organ, but botanists call it the Ovary. 
" 10. The middle of the pistil the learner may call the pillar, but botanists call 
it the Style. 
"11. The top of the pistil the learner may call the summit, but botanists call 
it the Stigma. 
" 12. The learner does not absolutely require to be taught any particular terms 
about the leaves, the branches, the stems, and the roots, though the common books 
on botany have some hundreds of these. There is only one more term which I 
shall mention at present, and which applies to a peculiar sort of leaf — sometimes 
according to the sort of plant found on the flower-stem, often at the base of leaves^ 
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