Botany
Cambridge University Press, 11/19/2015
EAN 9781107586314, ISBN10: 1107586313
Paperback, 548 pages, 20.3 x 12.7 x 3.1 cm
Language: English
Originally published in 1915, this textbook provides a comprehensive and readily understandable treatment of botany. Principally aimed at secondary school plant science students and botanists in preparation for examinations, the book assumes no prior scientific knowledge and identifies and describes the different types of plant communities and the biology behind how these communities flourish and thrive. The book is divided into six sections: 'The functions of plant organs', 'Form and structure', 'Reproduction', 'The classification of plants', 'Plants in relation to their environment' and 'Seedless plants'. Clearly written, self contained, detailed and replete with illustrations and photographs, this book will serve as an indispensable reference guide for those who are beginners in the subject but also as a trustworthy compendium for students, scholars and specialists, and will be of considerable value to anyone interested in horticulture, phycology and ecology.
Preface
Preface to the second edition
Preface to the fifth edition
1. Introductory
Section I. The Functions of Plant Organs. The Food of Plants
2. The chemistry of nutrition
3. Nutrition
the leaf
4. Conveyance and storage of food
5. Twofold use of food
growth and respiration
6. Transpiration
7. The work of the root
8. How root-hairs absorb water. Osmosis
9. The mineral food of plants
10. The balance of functions. Adaptation
Section II. Form and Structure
11. Internal structure or anatomy
12. Special forms and functions
Section III. Reproduction
13. The flower
14. Fruits
15. Seeds and seedlings
16. Fertilisation and the development of the seed
17. The conditions of germination and growth
Section IV. The Classification of Plants
18. Evolution and the principles of classification
19. Some other families
20. General survey
Section V. Plants in Relation to their Environment
21. 'Fitness'
22. Trees
23. Climbing plants
24. Water-plants
25. The distribution of plants and the factors which govern it
Supplement. Seedless Plants
26. Algae
27. Fungi
28. Mosses and liverworts (bryophyta)
29. Pteridophyta
Index.