CONTENTS 
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OF THE LECTURES AND APPENDIX. 
INTRODUCTION. 
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LECTURE I.—Importance of System.—Advantages to be derived from the Study of 
Botany.... .... 13 
PART I. 
LECTURE II.—General Division of the Sciences which relate to Mind and Matter.—Differ¬ 
ent departments of Botanical Science.—Parts of a flower.... 16 
LECTURE III.—Method of analyzing Plants.—Analysis of the Pink, Lily, Rose, and Poppy 19 
LECTURE IV.—Latin and Greek Numerals.—Artificial Classes and Orders.... 24 
LECTURE V.—Method of analyzing Plants by a series of comparisons.—General remarks 
upon Plants.—Method of preserving plants for an Herbarium.—Poisonous 
Plants, and those which are not poisonous.—Manner of taking Impressions of 
Leaves............. 27 
P A R T I I. 
LECTURE VI. Importance of observing external objects.—Vegetables consist of two sets 
of organs.—Of the Root.—Different kinds of Roots.... 33 
LECTURE VII.—Of the Stem.—Different kinds of Stems..... 40 
LECTURE VIII—Of Buds.. ... 44 
LECTURE IX.—Of Leaves.—Form of Leaves.—Compound Leaves.—Leaves with respect 
to Magnitude and Colour........ 48 
LECTURE X.—Anatomy and Physiology of Leaves.—Their use in the Vegetable System.— 
Fall of the Leaf.—Appendage's to Plants.... 59 
LECTURE XI.—Calyx ...... 65 
LECTURE XII.—Corolla and Nectary.......... 69 
LECTURE XIII.—Stamens and Pistils. .. 74 
LECTURE XIV.—Inflorescence.—Receptacle .......... 81 
LECTURE XV.—The Fruit—Pericarp.—Parts of the Pericarp—Linnaeus’s Classification 
of Fruits.—Mirbel’s Classification of Fruits.... 86 
LECTURE XVI.—The Seed.—Synopsis of the External organs of Plants... 96 
LECTURE XVII.—Physiological Views.—Germination of the Seed...... 102 
LECTURE XVIII.—Physiological Views.—Solid and Fluid parts of Vegetables.107 
LECTURE XIX.—Physiological Views.—Bark.—Wood.—Pith.—Growth of a Dicotyledo¬ 
nous Plant.—Growth of a Monocotyledonous Plant.....112 
LECTURE XX.—Chemical Composition of Plants.—Proximate Principles.—Chemical Ana¬ 
lysis of the Sap.... ..... 119 
