BULLETIN 



OF THE 



NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY 



OF 



NEW BRUNSWICK. 



A^ OUTLIISrE OF PHYTOBIOLOGY 



With Special Reference to the Study of its Problems 

 BY Local Botanists and Suggestions for a Biological- 

 Survey OF Acadian Plants. 



BY W. F. GANONG, Ph. D. 



Read June 4, 1895. 



Second Paper. 



ADAPTATIONS OF PLANTS TO LOCOMOTION. 



In the first paper of this series, Phytobiology * was- 

 defined, its relations to other departments of botany were 

 explained and divisions were proposed for its treatment. 

 In taking up these divisions it is not needful to hold to 

 the order there given ; and I have decided to treat first 

 the one which I think will prove of the greatest use and 

 interest to our botanists. This is the adaptations of plants 

 to locomotion. Its relation to other topics of the series is 



* In the first paper (p. 4, footnote) I said this term had not been before used, so 

 far as I was aware. Tlie editors of the Botanical Gazette (XX. p. 38) have called 

 my attention to the fact that the word occurs in the Century Dictionary, and Mr^ 

 F. L. Sargent of Cambridge leminds me that it is used by Lubbock in the title of a 

 paper of his upon Seeds and Seedlings, published in the Trans. Linn. Society to\r 

 1886. It would have been strange if so fitting a word had not before found use. 



