Botany

About this eBook

Author

Taylor, Norman, 1883-1967

Title

Botany: The Science of Plant Life

Credits

Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

QK: Science: Botany

Subject

Botany -- Textbooks

Category

Text

eBook-No.

49211

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49211

Release Date

June 14, 2015

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.BOTANY
2. 2.PREFACE
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
5. 5.INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER PLANTS AND OUR DAILY NEEDS
6. 6.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
7. 7.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
8. 8.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
9. 9.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
10. 10.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
11. 11.CHAPTER VI GARDEN PLANTS — Plant Materials for the Garden — TREES — EVERGREENS — DECIDUOUS TREES — SHRUBS — GARDEN HERBS — COLOR, SEASON, AND HEIGHT OF HARDY PERENNIALS — ANNUALS
12. 12.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
13. 13.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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