CONTENTS 
PART I 
INTRODUCTION 
CHAPTER PAGE 
I. Fundamental Notions I 
II. The Parts of a Flowering Plant 7 
III. The Cell 14 
PART II 
THE VEGETATIVE FUNCTIONS OF PLANTS 
IV. Loss of Water 21 
V. Absorption of Water . . . . 47 
VI. The Path of Liquids in the Plant 61 
VII. Nutrition ..." 69 
VIII. Fermentation 94 
IX. Respiration 103 
X. Growth 113 
XI. Adjustment to Surroundings 125 
PART III 
STRUCTURE AND LIFE HISTORIES 
XII. Life History of a Fern 144 
XIII. Life History of a Fern (concluded) 168 
XIV. Fundamental Principles 179 
XV. Life History of a Moss 193 
XVI. Life History of a Liverwort 209 
Anthoceros 212 
Other Forms 222 
XVII. Life Histories of Algae 227 
Ascophyllum , 227 
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