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answer anthers Apex Appendages APPLETON axil Axillary base bean begin blade Book of Botany bracts branches buds called Calyx carpels Cauline cluster color Compare compound leaves CORYMB Cotyledon definite trunks dehiscent DESCRIBING FIG Description of Fig embryo EXERCISE exstipulate feather-veined fibrous root filaments threadlike Gamopetalous Corolla growing grown growth hairy Henslow herbaceous indefinite INFLORESCENCE internodes Kind leaf Leaf-arrangement Leaf-position leaflets LEAVES radical lobes look Margin method Miss Youmans's names nodes oblong observing powers oldest flowers ovary ovules palmate-veined pedicels peduncle Perianth petals petiole Pinnate PINNATE.-When PISTIL Plumule polypetalous polysepalous Prof pupil questions Raceme rachis radical leaves Radicle regular ribs round SCHEDULE EIGHTEEN schools seed-coat seeds seen in Fig sepals Serrate sessile Shape shown in Fig shrub simple Sinuses slender specimens spreading Stamens stem stigma Stipules style surface suture tap-root teacher terminal text-book trees two-celled umbel veined Venation woody plants write Youmans
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Page viii - Invariably : he made it practical. He made it an objective study. The children were taught to know the plants, and to pull them to pieces ; to give their proper names to the parts ; to indicate the relations of the parts to one another ; and to find out the relation of one plant to another by the knowledge thus obtained.
Page vii - I have thought that it might be done very easily ; that this deficiency might be easily remedied. Q. What are your ideas on the subject ? — A. My own ideas are chiefly drawn from the experience of my father-in-law, the late Professor Henslow, Professor of Botany, at Cambridge. He introduced botany into one of the lowest possible class of schools, — that of village labourers' children in a remote part of Suffolk.