XVI CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER II.-SPECIAL PHYSIOLOGY OF THE NUTEITIVE 

 FUNCTIONS. 



PAGK 



6. Absorption 692 



7. Transpiration 696 



8. Distribution of Water and otber Substances 700 



9. Metabolism .... 706 



CHAPTEE III. SPECIAL PHYSIOLOGY OF MOVEMENT. 



10. Introductory 735 



11. Automatism (Spontaneous Movements) 735 



12. Irritability (Induced Movements) 742 



13. Localisation of Irritability 755 



14. Transmission of Stimuli 756 



15. Combined Effect of Different Stimuli 757 



16. Conditions of Movement 760 



17. Mechanism of tbe Movements 761 



CHAPTER IV. SPECIAL PHYSIOLOGY OF EEPEODUCTION. 



18. Introductory 766 



19. Vegetative Multiplication 767 



20. Spore-Eeproduction 768 



21. Sexual Eeproduction 772 



22. Heredity and Variation 777 



23. The Theory of Reproduotion 780 



INDEX, PABT I. Classification and Nomenclature 785 



II. Morphology, Anatomy, and Physiology . . .805 



