An introduction to physiological and systematical botany

An introduction to physiological and systematical botany

James Edward Smith, English botanist (1759-1828)


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Table of Contents

- About This Book

- Preface

- Distinctions Between Animals, Vegetables And Fossils

- Definition Of Natural History, And Particularly Botany

- Of The Cuticle Or Epidermis

- Of The Cellular Integument

- Of The Bark

- Of The Wood

- Of The Medulla Or Pith

- Of The Sap-vessels, And Course Of The Sap

- Of The Sap, And Insensible Perspiration

- Of The Secreted Fluids Of Plants Grafting

- The Process Of Vegetation

- Of The Root, And Its Different Kinds

- Different Kinds Of Stems And Stalks Of Plants

- Of Buds

- Of Leaves, Their Situations, Insertions, Surfaces, And Various Forms

- Of The Functions Of Leaves

- Of The Several Kinds Of Fulcra, Or Appendages To A Plant

- Of The Inflorescence, Or Mode Of Flowering, And Its Various Forms

- Of The Flower And Fruit

- Of The Peculiar Functions Of The Stamens And Pistils

- On The Diseases Of Plants, Particularly As Illustrative Of Their Vital Principle

- Of The Systematical Arrangement Of Plants

- Explanation Of The Linnæan Artificial System

- Illustrations Of The Linnæean Classes And Orders

- Explanation Of The Plates

- Index 1

- Index 2