Elementary Botany

Name: Elementary Botany
Author: Atkinson, George Francis

Atkinson, George Francis

Botany; Botany -- Textbooks; Plants

_Illustrations._ The large majority of the illustrations are new
(or are the same as those used in earlier editions of the author’s
Elementary Botany) and were made with special reference to the method
of treatment followed in the text. Many of the photographs were made
by the author. Others were contributed by Professor Rowlee of Cornell
University; Mr. John Gifford of New Jersey; Professor B. M. Duggar,
University of Missouri; Professor C. E. Bessey, University of Nebraska;
Dr. M. B. Howe, New York Botanical Garden; Mr. Gifford Pinchot, Chief
of the Bureau of Forestry; Mr. B. T. Galloway, Chief of the Bureau of
Plant Industry; Professor Tuomey of Yale University; and Mr. E. H.
Harriman, who through Dr. C. H. Merriam of the National Museum allowed
the use of several of his copyrighted photographs from Alaska. To those
who have contributed drawings the author is indebted as follows: to
Professor Margaret C. Ferguson, Wellesley College; Professor Bertha
Stoneman of Huguenot College, South Africa; Mr. H. Hasselbring of
Chicago; Dr. K. Miyake, formerly of Cornell University and now of
Doshisha College, Japan; and Professors Ikeno and Hirase of the Tokio
Imperial University. The author is also indebted to Ginn & Co., Boston,
for the privilege to use from his “First Studies of Plant Life” the
following figures: 28, 29, 46, 48, 49, 56, 62, 66, 67, 87, 102, 103,
422-426, 429, 430, 438-440, 443, 444, 448, 449, 452, 472-475. A few
others are acknowledged in the text.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY, April, 1905.




TABLE OF CONTENTS.


    PART I. PHYSIOLOGY.

                           CHAPTER I.                      PAGE
    PROTOPLASM.                                               1

                           CHAPTER II.
    ABSORPTION, DIFFUSION, OSMOSE.                           13

                           CHAPTER III.
    HOW PLANTS OBTAIN WATER.                                 22

                           CHAPTER IV.
    TRANSPIRATION, OR THE LOSS OF WATER BY PLANTS.           35

                           CHAPTER V.
    PATH OF MOVEMENT OF WATER IN PLANTS.                     48

                           CHAPTER VI.
    MECHANICAL USES OF WATER.                                56

                          CHAPTER VII.
   STARCH AND SUGAR FORMATION.                               60
      1. The Gases Concerned.                                60
      2. Where Starch is Formed.                             64
      3. Chlorophyll and the Formation of Starch.            67

                          CHAPTER VIII.
   STARCH AND SUGAR CONCLUDED; ANALYSIS OF PLANT SUBSTANCE.  73
      1. Translocation of Starch.                            73
      2. Sugar, and Digestion of Starch.                     75
      3. Rough Analysis of Plant Substance.                  79

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