Field and Woodland Plants

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William S. Furneaux. Field and Woodland Plants

Field and Woodland Plants

Table of Contents

COLOURED PLATES

I. INTRODUCTION. GENERAL CHARACTERS OF PLANTS AND THE IDENTIFICATION OF FLOWERS

The Root

The Stem

The Leaf

Inflorescence

The Flower

The Fruit and Seed

Classification of Flowering Plants

SYNOPSIS OF THE NATURAL ORDERS

II. THE POLLINATION AND FERTILISATION OF FLOWERS

III. CLIMBING PLANTS

IV. EARLY SPRING

V. WOODS AND THICKETS IN SPRING

VI. THE SPRING-FLOWERING TREES AND SHRUBS OF WOODS, THICKETS, AND HEDGEROWS

VII. WAYSIDES AND WASTES IN SPRING

VIII. MEADOWS, FIELDS AND PASTURES—SPRING

IX. BOGS, MARSHES AND WET PLACES IN SPRING

X. WOODS AND THICKETS IN SUMMER

XI. WASTES AND WAYSIDES IN SUMMER

XII. WAYSIDES AND WASTES IN SUMMER (Continued)

XIII. WASTES AND WAYSIDES IN SUMMER (Continued)

XIV. MEADOWS, FIELDS AND PASTURES—SUMMER

XV. BOGS, MARSHES AND WET PLACES—SUMMER

XVI. ON HEATH, DOWN AND MOOR

XVII. IN THE CORN FIELD

XVIII. ON THE CHALK

XIX. BY THE RIVER SIDE

XX. ON WALLS, ROCKS, AND STONY PLACES

XXI. FIELD AND WAYSIDE IN AUTUMN

XXII. AUTUMN IN THE WOODS

XXIII. PARASITIC PLANTS

XXIV. CARNIVOROUS PLANTS

LIST OF FLOWERS. CLASSIFIED ACCORDING TO THEIR HABITATS AND HABITS

LIST OF FLOWERS. CLASSIFIED ACCORDING TO THEIR ORDERS AND GENERA

GLOSSARIAL INDEX

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William S. Furneaux

Published by Good Press, 2019

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The student should always endeavour to determine the order to which any flower he finds belongs; and, if possible, the genus and the species. It is certainly a pleasure to be able to call flowers by their names, but at the same time it must be remembered that a vast deal of pleasure may be gained by the study of flowers—their peculiar structure, habits and habitats—even though their names are unknown; and the student who has learnt to recognise these characters, and to discover the relationships that exist between certain flowers of different species, is certainly much more fortunate than the one who knows abundance of names with only a meagre acquaintance with the flowers themselves.

Our table of classification gives the most important distinguishing characters of the classes, sub-classes, and orders, of a very large proportion of our wild flowers, and will enable the reader to determine the natural order of almost every one he sees. In order to show how this table is to be used we will take an imaginary example.

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