ANALYTICAL TABLE 
OF 
LINDLEY’S NATURAL ORDERS OE PLANTS, 
MODIFIED FROM 
BALFOUR’S CLASS BOOK OF BOTANY. 
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OE TECHNOLOGY, 1874. 
Flowerless plants, reproducing by spores. Cryptogamia. D. 
Flowering plants, reproducing by seeds. 
Embryo with a single cotyledon. Parts of the flower in 3’s. 
Leaves mostly parallel veined. Woody bundles of the stem 
scattered among the cellular tissue. Endogenous. C. 
Embryo with two or more cotyledons, — or none. Parts of 
the flower in 5’s or 4’s, or indefinite. Leaves net veined. 
Woody bundles of the stem symmetrically arranged around 
a central pith. Exogenous. 
Flowers having a calyx only, which is sometimes corolla like. 
Apetalous. B. 
Flowers having neither calyx nor corolla. Asepalous. B. 
Flowers having both calyx and corolla. 
Petals partly or wholly united — or monopetalous. A. 
Petals distinct, or polypetalous. 
Stamens and corolla inserted on the receptacle. I, a. p. 3 . 
Stamens and petals inserted on the calyx. I, b. p. 8. 
