TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
PART I. 
THE STRUCTURE OF THE FLOWERING PLANT, 
CHAPTER E 
GERMINATION. PAGE 
Bean—Maize—Sunflower—Conditions of Germination  - - : - 1—8 
CHAPTER II. 
ROOTS. 
The Primary Root—Branching of Roots— Adventitious Roots— Parasitic | | 
Roots—Duration of Roots - - . : ae 
CHAPTER III. 
BUDS. 
Apical and Axillary Buds- Winter Buds of the Ash and Horse-chestnut— 
Arrangement of Leaves in the Bud — - . : : : E 
14—19 
CHAPTER IV 
STEMS. 
Stems Compared with Roots—Underground Stems—Aerial Stems—Branching 
of Stems - : - - - - - i eos - 20—26 
CHAPTER, V. 
LEAVES, 
Definition of the term “* Leaf’ —Cotyledons—Covering Leaves, namely, Bud 
Scales and Bracts—Foliage Leaves, their Arrangement, Structure, Shape, 
and Modifications--Simple and Compound Leaves : - 27 —33 
CHAPTER VI. 
THE FLOWER. 
The..Elewer a Modified Shoot—-The Calyx, Corolla, Andreecium, Gyneecium— 
Placentation : : . : . : wreeaent ge - 34—40 
