Botany The Science of Plant Life
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BOTANY
PREFACE
CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER PLANTS AND OUR DAILY NEEDS
CHAPTER I WHAT PLANTS ARE
1. Flowering Plants
THE ROOT
THE STEM
THE LEAF
THE FLOWER
THE FRUIT
THE SEED
2. Flowerless Plants
THE FERNS
OTHER FLOWERLESS PLANTS
Summary Of What Plants Are
CHAPTER II PLANT BEHAVIOR
1. Light and Its Importance To the Plant
LEAVES AS FACTORIES FOR THE MAKING OF FOOD
EFFECT OF LIGHT AND DARKNESS ON INDIVIDUAL PLANTS AND VEGETATION AS A WHOLE
2. How Plants Get Their Food and Water From the Earth
3. Borrowing From the Living and Robbing From the Dead
4. What Plants Do With Water and How They Breathe
5. Restless and Irritable Plants
CHAPTER III HOW PLANTS PRODUCE THEIR YOUNG
1. Visible Marriage of Flowering Plants
INSECTS AS FLOWER VISITORS
WIND AND WHAT IT DOES FOR FLOWERS
WATER AS AN AID TO FERTILIZATION
2. Hidden Marriage of Flowerless Plants
THE LIFE HISTORY OF A FERN
LIFE HISTORY OF A MOSS
LIFE HISTORY OF A MUSHROOM
THE PRODUCTION OF YOUNG PLANTS WITHOUT MATING
CHAPTER IV THE FAMILIES OF FLOWERING PLANTS AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP
Plant Names and How They Are Acquired
PLANT FAMILIES AND ORDERS
Some Monocotyledonous Plant Families
Dicotyledonous Plant Families
CHAPTER V USES OF PLANTS TO MAN
1. Foods
WHEAT
INDIAN CORN OR MAIZE
RICE
SUGAR
THE BANANA
POTATO
COCONUT
2. Beverages
TEA
COFFEE
CHOCOLATE
3. Fibers
COTTON
HEMP AND CORDAGE
JUTE
4. The Story of Rubber
5. Drugs
QUININE
ACONITE
OPIUM AND MORPHINE
COCAINE
6. The Story of Tobacco
7. Spices
VANILLA
NUTMEG
CLOVES
CINNAMON
CHAPTER VI GARDEN PLANTS
Plant Materials for the Garden
TREES
EVERGREENS
DECIDUOUS TREES
SHRUBS
GARDEN HERBS
COLOR, SEASON, AND HEIGHT OF HARDY PERENNIALS
ANNUALS
CHAPTER VII HISTORY OF THE PLANT KINGDOM
1. Dawn of Plant Life On Earth
2. The Development of Land Plants
3. Carboniferous Plants and the Formation of Coal
4. More Recent Ancestors of Our Modern Flora
5. Present-Day Plants and Where They Come From
6. How Plants Change Their Characters and Become New Species
CHAPTER VIII DISTRIBUTION OF PLANTS
1. Dispersal By Animals, the Wind, and Water
THE WIND
WATER
2. Invasion, Migration, and Relics
3. Home Economy of Plants, or Ecology
4. Some of the Chief Plant Societies
Forests
TROPICAL RAIN FOREST
TEMPERATE FORESTS IN AMERICA
THE PRAIRIE OR GRASSLANDS
DESERTS
GENERAL CONCLUSION
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