Aspects of plant life; with special reference to the British flora

INDEX

Agriculture, 135
Alien plants, 143
Alpine plants, 190
Animal-eating plants, 77
Animals and plants, 75
and seed-dispersal, 69
dependence on plants, 155
Arctic deserts, 19
plants, 196
Bog plants, 41
British flora, 167
Isles, vegetation, 25, 30
Chlorophyll, 180
Cultivated plants, 145
Deserts, 16
Fertilization, 82
Flowers, 126
display, 85
structure, 81
Fruit, 131
Fruits, explosive, 55
Glacial Period, 165
Grassland, 25
Insectivorous plants, 78, 186
Insects and flowers, 81
Leaves, 119
Life, origin of, 15
Man and vegetation, 135
Marine plants, 201
Migration, 48
Mountain plants, 189
Mud-flats, 17
Mycetozoa, 156
Myxomycetes, 156
Ocean depths, 19, 76
Origin of life, 199
Parasites, 183
Peat flora, 41
Planets, question of life on, 11
Plant associations, 30
economy, 98, 141
formations, 32
migration, 48
Plants, cultivated, 145
earliest, 154
Pollination, 82
Roots, 105
Salt-marshes, 23, 40
Saprophytes, 181
Seed-dispersal, 49
Seeds, 50
Semi-deserts, 22
Shingle beaches, 39
Soil, 99
Stems, 109
Symbiosis, 79
Types of vegetation, 31
Vegetation, closed, 24
Vegetative reproduction, 53
Water, dispersal by, 61
flora, 43, 199
Wind, dispersal by, 62
Woodland, 25
Xerophytes, 36

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FOOTNOTES:

[1] Svante Arrhenius: “The Destinies of the Stars.” Translated by J. E. Fries. Putnam, 1918.

[2] F. Soddy: “Matter and Energy,” 1912, p. 194.

[3] A. G. Tansley: “Types of British Vegetation,” 1911, p. 63.

[4] H. B. Guppy: “Plants, Seeds, and Currents in the West Indies and Azores,” 1917, p. 425.

[5] W. B. Barrows: “Seed-planting by Birds.” Report of the Secretary of Agriculture, U.S.A., 1890, p. 281.

[6] See A. H. Church: “The Plankton-phase and the Plankton-rate,” Journal of Botany, June, 1919, supplement.

[7] G. H. Carpenter: “Insects: Their Structure and Life,” p. 300.

[8] W. B. Bottomley in “The Exploitation of Plants,” edited by F. W. Oliver, 1917, p. 12.

[9] To be accurate, certain groups of Bacteria, the lowest forms of organized life, must be excluded. They appear capable of building up their bodies directly out of inorganic substances.

[10] F. J. Hanbury and E. S. Marshall: “Flora of Kent,” 1899, p. xxxv.

[11] A. F. W. Schimper: “Plant Geography” (English translation, 1903), p. 719.

[12] A. F. W. Schimper: “Plant Geography” (English translation, 1903), p. 41.

[13] See Agnes Arber: “Aquatic Angiosperms: the Significance of their Systematic Distribution,” Journal of Botany, 1919, p. 83.

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