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p.ants for similar purposes as tke fur, hair, and bristles of ani- 
mals, viz.: to defend them from cold and other injuries. 
Fig. 41. 
2yi0); oan 250. The Bract is a leaf among or 
\' Be near the flowers, different from the 
W = _ leaves of the plant. In this branch, 
fj} WS (Fig. 41,) you observe the difference 
between the real leaves (b b) and the 
bract (a) ; the former being cordate 
and crenate, the latter lanceolate and 
Sniirend 
251. In some plants, as in several 
species of the Sage, the transition 
from leaves to bracts is so gradual, as 
to render it difficult to distinguish be- 
tween them, and a considerable part 
of the foliage is composed of bracts. 
rial, the stem is terminated by a num- 
ber of large and conspicuous bracts. 
The appendages are sometimes mis- 
taken for the calyx. 
252. We have now, in regular or- 
der, considered the first of the two 
\s classes of vegetable organs, viz.: such 
\a as tend to the support and growth of 
\\ the plant, including root, stem, leaf, 
AY and appendages; we are next to en- 
ter upon the description of a class of organs whose chief use 
appears to be that of bringing forward the fruit 
CHAPTER XI. 
Different parts of the Flower—The Calyx. 
_ 283. You are no doubt pleased to have arrived at the blos- 
som, that part of the plant which is the ornament of the vege- 
table kingdom. Flowers are delightful to every lover of na- 
250. What is the bract ? 
251. Is it always easy to distinguish bracts from leaves 2 
252. What organs of the plant have we now considered 2 
253. What part of the plant is the ornament of the vegetable king- 
om, 
. 
In other plants, as the Crown impe- . 
