TABLE OF CONTE>JTS. 



PART I. PHYSIOLOGY. 

 CHAPTER I. 



PAGE 



Protoplasm i 



CHAPTER II. 

 Absorptiox, Diffusiox, Osmose 13 



CHAPTER HI. 



How PL.iXTS OBT.iTN" WATER 22 



CHAPTER lY 



TlLAXSPIR-iTIOX, OR THE LOSS OF WATER BY Pl.\XTS 35 



CHAPTER A'. 

 Path of ISIovemext of Water ix Plants 48 



CHAPTER \'I. 

 }iIechaxic.al Uses of Water 56 



CHAPTER M.J. 



Starch axd Sugar Formatiox 60 



1 . The Gases Concerned 60 



2. Where Starch is Formed 64 



3. Chlorophyll and the Formation of Starch 67 



CHAPTER VIII. 



Starch .A^'D Sugar Coxclltded; Axalysis of Pl.axt Subst.^xce. . . . 73 



1. Translocation of Starch 73 



2. Sugar, and Digestion of Starch 75 



3. Rough .\nalysis of Plant Substance 79 



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