CONTENTS 



Vol. I., Part II. Physiology 



CHAPTER 



Introduction 



I. The material income of plants 



1. The plant cell . . . . 



2. Diffusion and osmosis 



3. Turgor and its conse- 



quences 



4. The permeable regions of 



root and shoot . . . 

 II. The material outgo of plants . 



1. Transpiration . . . . 



2. Exudation of water . . 



3. The movement of water 



4. Other losses 



III. Nutrition 



1. The nature of plant food 



2. Photosynthesis .... 



(1) The raw materials . 



(2) The laboratories . 



(3) The energy . . . 



(4) The products and 



the process . . 



3. The synthesis of proteins 



4. Other ways of getting 



food 



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V. 



5. The storage and translo 



cation of food 



6. Digestion . . 

 Destructive metabolism 



1. Respiration . . 



2. Fermentations . 



3. Waste products and ash 

 Growth and movement . 



1. Growth .... 



2. Irritability . . . 



3. Morphogenic stimuli 



Nastic curvatures 

 Locomotion and stream 



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Turgor movements 

 Tropisms .... 



(1) Geotropism . 



(2) Thigmotropism 



(3) Traumatropism 



(4) Rheotropism 



(5) Chemotropism 



(6) Phototropism 



(7) Other tropisms w 



radiant energy 

 The death of plants 



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