wunder · LibraryPART III. Plant Life
Read in the Wunder reader — freePLANT LIFE
How to Begin the Study of Plants and Flowers 489
How to Make Plants Comfortable 490
How to Teach the Names of the Parts of a Flower 492
Teach the Use of a Flower 493
Flowers and Insect Partners 494
The Relation of Plants to Geography 495
Seed Germination 495
I Wild-flower Study
The Hepatica 496
The Yellow Adder’s Tongue 499
Bloodroot 503
The Trillium 506
Dutchman’s Breeches and Squirrel Corn 509
Jack-in-the-Pulpit 512
The Violet 515
The May Apple or Mandrake 519
The Bluets 523
The Yellow Lady’s Slipper, or Moccasin Flower 525
The Common Buttercup 528
The Evening Primrose 530
The Hedge Bindweed 535
The Dodder 538
The Milkweed 540
The White Water Lily 545
Pondweed 548
The Cat-tail 551
A Type Lesson for a Composite Flower 554
The Goldenrod 555
The Asters 558
The White Daisy 560
The Yellow Daisy or Black-eyed Susan 562
The Thistle 563
The Burdock 566
Prickly Lettuce, A Compass Plant 570
The Dandelion 572
The Pearly Everlasting 576
The Jewelweed, or Touch-me-not 578
Mullein 582
The Teasel 586
Queen Anne’s Lace, or Wild Carrot 589
Weeds 594
Outline for the Study of a Weed 595
II Cultivated-Plant Study
The Crocus 596
Daffodils and their Relatives 599
The Tulip 603
The Pansy 607
The Bleeding Heart 611
Poppies 613
The California Poppy 616
The Nasturtium 620
The Bee-Larkspur 623
The Blue Flag, or Iris 626
The Sunflower 631
The Bachelor’s Button 636
The Salvia or Scarlet Sage 637
Petunias 640
The Horseshoe Geranium 643
The Sweet Pea 649
The Clovers 652
Sweet Clover 655
The White Clover 658
Maize, or Indian Corn 660
The Cotton Plant 666
The Strawberry 672
The Pumpkin 675
III Flowerless-Plant Study
The Christmas Fern 684
The Bracken 689
How a Fern Bud Unfolds 691
The Fruiting of the Fern 693
The Field Horsetail 699
The Hair-cap Moss, or Pigeon Wheat 702
Mushrooms and other Fungi 706
Puffballs 712
The Bracket Fungi 714
Hedgehog Fungi 717
The Scarlet Saucer 718
The Morels 719
The Stinkhorns 720
Molds 720
Bacteria 723
IV Tree Study
How a Tree Grows 726
How to Begin Tree Study 731
How to Make Leaf Prints 734
The Maples 736
The American Elm 745
The Oak 748
The Shagbark Hickory 755
The Chestnut 757
The Horse-Chestnut 761
The Willows 765
The Cottonwood or Carolina Poplar 770
The White Ash 774
The Apple Tree 778
How an Apple Grows 782
The Apple 785
The Pine 789
The Norway Spruce 796
The Hemlock 801
The Flowering Dogwood 803
The Staghorn Sumac 806
The Witch-Hazel 810
The Mountain Laurel 813
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