AN OUTLINE OF PHYT0B10L0(; V. 



great activity- in tins line of investigation. It is reason- 

 ably sure, moreover, that before long there will appear 

 in English a concise work covering the present sub- 

 ject, and treating it in a not dissimilar way. It is now 

 safe to sa^' that long before this series could be com- 

 pleted upon its present lines, the necessity for it would 

 be met by other works. Phytoecology is at present the 

 most attractive, most promising, and, from the educational 

 standpoint at least, most useful division of the science, 

 and the near future must see an immense development of 

 knowledge in it and a wide application to education and 

 to the pleasures of intellectual life. 



It will be of interest to the readers of the earlier 

 papers if I add here my latest plan for the completion of 

 the series. The successive papers would have been, — 

 Introduction and Classification. In JhiUefin No. XII. 



A. Adaptations of Plants to Nutrition. 



B. Adaptations of Plants to Growth. 



C. Adaptations of Plants to Reproduction. Read June Jnd. 



D. Adaptations of Plants to Response to Stimuli. 



E. Aflaptations of Plants to Locomotion. /ii BnJJptiii Xo. 



XIII. 



F. Adaptatit>ns of Plants to Protection. 



C Artificial Classification and Key to adaptations, based upon 



size, shape, color, position, texture, etc. 

 H. Ecological Plant-geography of New Brunswick. 



The third paper, C. Adaplations to Beprodudion, as 

 presented to the Society, treated the subject as follows : 



V.\nT I. Physiological Aspects of Reproduction. 

 Fundamental meaning of Reproduction and of Sex : value 

 of crossing in reproduction, and consequent advantage of 

 locomotive arrangements to bring the sexual elements into 

 contact. Pakt II. Biological (ecological) Aspects of 

 Reprouuction. Section I. Evolution of reproductive 

 structures adapted to ditferent external conditions : ad- 

 vance from lowest water to highest land lial)it. Sect'O?) IT. 



