Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . ntcircles. People generally took tocounting stamens and pistils, andlarge numbers took pride in beingbotanists because they could trace so easily the classes and orders of theplants they met. The grand old man died in 1778, and though his artificialsystem had to give way to a more natural method,
Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . ntcircles. People generally took tocounting stamens and pistils, andlarge numbers took pride in beingbotanists because they could trace so easily the classes and orders of theplants they met. The grand old man died in 1778, and though his artificialsystem had to give way to a more natural method, he is justly regarded asthe father of modern botany. With the incoming of the nineteenth century, botany took a rapid ceased to be a mere handmaid to the study of medicine. Chemistry, geo-graphy, teleology, and indeed the chief foundations of biology had becomeclosely interwoven with botanical studies; and thus the progress of botanythrough the century has to be viewed from many standpoints. In classification, what is known as the natural system has replaced thesexual. Plants are grouped according to their apparent relationships. Thoseresembling in general character the Pose form the order Bosacece ; the Lily,Liliaeeee. Sometimes, however, a striking characteristic is adopted for the. TnE GREEN with leaves for petals. STORY OF PLANT AND FLOWER 107 family name, as Compositce, or compound flower, for the daisy and aster-flowered plants; Umbelliferce, or umbel-flowering, as in carrot or parsley;Leguminosce, having the seed vessels as legumes, like peas and beans. Classification has, however, derived much assistance from a wholly newbranch of the science known as Morphology. This teaches that all parts ofplants are modifications of other parts. What Nature may have intended tobe a leaf may become a stem ; the outer series of floral envelopes, or calyx,may become petals; petals may become stamens; and even pistils may he-come leaves, or even branches. The green
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