`` Sit there and write what I tell you , '' ordered Thorny , with all the severity of a strict schoolmaster . Perching himself on the mossy stump , Ben obediently floundered through the following analysis , with constant help in the spelling , and much private wonder what would come of it : -- `` Phaenogamous . Exogenous . Angiosperm . Polypetalous . Stamens , more than ten . Stamens on the receptacle . Pistils , more than one and separate . Leaves without stipules . Crowfoot family . Genus ranunculus . Botanical name , Ranunculus bulbosus . '' `` Jerusalem ! what a flower ! Pistols and crows ' feet , and Polly put the kettles on , and Angy sperms and all the rest of 'em ! If that 's your botany , I wo n't take any more , thank you , '' said Ben , as he paused as hot and red as if he had been running a race . `` Yes , you Will ; you 'll learn that all by heart , and then I shall give you a dandelion to do . You 'll like that , because it means dent de lion , or lion 's tooth ; and I 'll show them to you through my glass . You 've no idea how interesting it is , and what heaps of pretty things you 'll see , '' answered Thorny , who had already discovered how charming the study was , and had found great satisfaction in it , since he had been forbidden more active pleasures . `` What 's the good of it , anyway ? ''
asked XXXXX , who would rather have been set to mowing the big field than to the task before him .
Angiosperm Ben Botanical Crowfoot Jerusalem Phaenogamous Pistils Polly bulbosus stipules