CONTENTS, 



PART I. 



GENERAL PHYSIOLOGY. 

 CHAPTER I. 



ON SOME OF THE CONDITIONS AFFECTING THE LIFE OF PLANTS. 



Section A. Respiration. 1. Eespiration ; production of COg 

 by germinating seeds or buds. 2. Absorption of COo by potash. 

 3. Sachs' method. 4. Winkler-Hempel apparatus. 5. Timiriazeff's 

 Eudiometer. 6, 7, 8. Intramolecular respiration. 9, 10. Kise of 

 temperature during respiration. 11. Succulents . pp. 1 — 13. 



Section B. The effect of various temperatures: of certain 

 poisons : and of electrical shock. 12. Injurious temperature 

 demonstrated on Oxalis leaf. 13. Do., injected leaf. 14. Do., 

 beetroot. 15. Do., dry and soaked seeds. 16. Circulation of pro- 

 toplasm, Sachs' hot-box. 17. Velten's method. 18. Circulation 

 of protoplasm, effect of CO.,. 19. Do., chloroform. 20. Oxalis 

 leaf killed by chloroform. 21. Do. by phenol. 22. Do. by 

 induced current. 23. Effect of induced current on circulating 

 protoplasm pp. 14 — 20. 



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