Table of Contents
Part I. Physiology
Chapter 1. Protoplasm.
Chapter 2. Absorption, Diffusion, Osmose.
Chapter 3. How Plants Obtain Water.
Chapter 4. Transpiration, or the Loss of Water by Plants.
Chapter 5. Path of Movement of Water in Plants.
Chapter 6. Mechanical Uses of Water.
Chapter 7. Starch and Sugar Formation.
Chapter 8. Starch and Sugar Concluded; Analysis of Plant Substance.
Chapter 9. How Plants Obtain their Food, I.
Chapter 10. How Plants Obtain their Food, II.
Chapter 11. Respiration.
Chapter 12. Growth.
Chapter 13. Irritability.
Part II. Morphology and Life History of Representative Plants.
Chapter 14. Spirogyra.
Chapter 15. Vaucheria.
Chapter 16. Œdogonium.
Chapter 17. Coleochæte.
Chapter 18. Classification and Additional Studies of the Algæ.
Chapter 19. Fungi: Mucor and Saprolegnia. [Pg xi]
Chapter 20. Fungi Continued (“Rusts” Uredineæ).
Chapter 21. The Higher Fungi.
Chapter 22. Classification of the Fungi.
Chapter 23. Liverworts (Hepaticæ).
Chapter 24. Liverworts Continued.
Chapter 25. Mosses (Musci).
Chapter 26. Ferns.
Chapter 27. Ferns Continued.
Chapter 28. Dimorphism of Ferns.
Chapter 29. Horsetails.
Chapter 30. Club Mosses.
Chapter 31. Quillworts (Isoetes)
Chapter 32. Comparison of Ferns and their Relatives.
Chapter 33. Gymnosperms.
Chapter 34. Further Studies on Gymnosperms.
Chapter 35. Morphology of the Angiosperms: Trillium; Dentaria.
Chapter 36. Gametophyte and Sporophyte of Angiosperms.
Chapter 37. Morphology of the Nucleus and Significance of Gametophyte and Sporophyte.
Part III. Plant Members in Relation to Environment.
Chapter 38. The Organization of the Plant.
Chapter 39. The Different Types of Stems.
Chapter 40. Foliage Leaves.
Chapter 41. The Root.
Chapter 42. The Floral Shoot.
Chapter 43. Pollination.
Chapter 44. The Fruit.
Chapter 45. Seed Dispersal.
Chapter 46. Vegetation in Relation to Environment.
Chapter 47. Classification of Angiosperms.
Index
