CONTENTS 



PACE 



Introduction ------- - i 



DIVISION I 

 ANGIOSPERMS OR HIGHER FLOWERING PLANTS 



CHAPTER 



I. Seed. Germination. Form of the Established Plant 



II. The Cellular Construction c? the Plant 16 



III. The Living Cell - ' - - - 29 



IV. The Tissues of the Stem ------- 40 



V. The Leaf ------- - 69 



VI. The Root -------- -82 



VII. The Water-Relation ------- 95 



VIII. Synthesis, Storage, and Breakdown - - - - 114 



IX. Growth, Irritability and Movement 

 X. The Mechanical Construction of the Plant-Body 

 XI. Modifications of Form in the Vegetative System of the 

 Higher Plants -------- 



XII. Irregular Nutrition - - - - - - -22 



XIII. Vegetative Propagation ------- J44 



XIV' The Inflorescence, and the Flower - - - - - 1 



XV. The Stamen and Pollen-Sac ------ 



XVI. The Carpel and Ovule - - - - 



XVII. Pollination and Fertilisation ----- $cc 



XVIII. The Embryo and the Seed ------ 



XIX. The Fruit and Seed-Dispers: 

 XX. Evolution, Homoplasy, Analogy, Homology - 



DIVISION II 

 THALLOPHYTA 



XXI, Introductory to Thallophvta 



XXII. Green Algae (Chlorophyceae) 



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