CONTENTS. 



PART I. 



ON THE EDUCATIONAL PLACE, METHODS OF STUDY, AND NECESSARY EQUIP- 

 MENT OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 



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1. The Place of Plant Physiology in Botanical Education 3 



2. Teaching and Learning Plant Physiology . . 8 



3. Greenhouse and Laboratory for Plant Physiology 31 



4. Apparatus and Materials for Plant Physiology 44 



PART II. 

 A COURSE IN EXPERIMENTAL PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 



Division I. The Structure and Properties of the Protoplasm of Plants. ... 57 



Section i. The Physical Structure and Properties of Protoplasm 58 



Section 2. The Chemical Composition of Protoplasm 62 



Section 3. The Vital Structure and Properties of Protoplasm 63 



Section 4. The Reactions of Protoplasm to External Forces 65 



Section 5. The Building of Organisms by Protoplasm 75 



Division II. The Physiological Processes of Plants 77 



Section i. The Processes of Nutrition 78 



Sub-section A. Metabolic (Chemical) Processes: 



1. Photosynthesis 79 



2. Chemosynthesis 114 



3. Synthesis of Proteids 115 



4. Conversion , 119 



5. Respiration (Energesis) and Fermentation 122 



Sub-section B. Translocate ry (Physical) Processes: 



6. Absorption 142 



7. Transport 167 



(a) Transfer . 167 



(b) Translocation 170 



8. Elimination 1 72 



(a) Transpiration 172 



(b) Guttation 194 



(c) Excretion 195 



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