[Gutenberg 49211] • Botany: The Science of Plant Life by Taylor, Norman -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

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

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