

CONTENTS 



CHAPTER 



Place of Plant Physiology; Classification of the 

 Botanical Sciences .... 

 II. The Cell; the Colloidal Condition 



III. Photosynthesis: General 



IV. The Determining Factors in Photosynthesis 

 V. Chemistry of Chlorophyll: the Carotinoids 



VI. The Photosynthetic Process . 

 VII. Other Ways of Procuring Food among the Higher 



Plants . . .••••• 



VIII. Nutrition in the Lower Plants; Chemosynthesis 

 IX. Nitrogen Assimilation; the Nitrogen Cycle 

 X. Nutritive and Stimulative Functions of Salts . 

 XI. The Balancing Function of Salts: Ions and An 



TAGONISM . 



XII. The Carbohydrates 



XIII. Fats, Waxes, and Lipoids 



XIV. Proteins 



XV. Allied and Miscellaneous Products 



XVI. Enzymes 



XVII. Hormones, Vitamins, Auximones 

 XVIII. Diffusion of Gases 

 XIX. Osmosis and Imbibition 

 XX. Loss of Water 

 XXI. The Ascent of Sap . 

 XXII. Digestion 



XXIII. Storage and Translocation 



XXIV. Respiration 

 XXV. Anaerobic Respiration and Fermentation 



XXVI. General Characteristics of Growth 



XXVII. Specific Growth Factors 



XXVIII. Irritability; Polarity and Correlation 



XXIX. Movement 



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