The Study of Plant Life

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PREFACE

PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

CONTENTS

PART I. THE LIFE OF THE PLANT CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY

PART II. THE PARTS OF A PLANT'S BODY AND THEIR USES CHAPTER XI. ROOTS

PART III. SPECIALISATION IN PLANTS CHAPTER XVIII. FOR PROTECTION AGAINST LOSS OF WATER

PART IV. THE FIVE GREAT CLASSES OF PLANTS

PART V. PLANTS IN THEIR HOMES CHAPTER XXVIII. HEDGES AND DITCHES

INDEX

FOOTNOTES

Transcriber's Note

THE STUDY OF PLANT LIFE

First Impression October 1906.
Second Impression February 1907.
Second Edition 1910.

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

ANCIENT PLANTS

BEING A SIMPLE ACCOUNT OF THE PAST VEGETATION OF THE EARTH AND OF THE RECENT IMPORTANT DISCOVERIES MADE IN THIS REALM OF NATURE STUDY

Illustrated. Demy 8vo, 4s. 6d. net

“Miss Stopes’s book is an enterprising and able attempt to popularize a difficult subject. The really keen student will undoubtedly be stimulated to pursue the study of fossil plants further, and even those who are not students will get some new ideas and derive a certain amount of interest from a book which is sometimes brilliant but never dull.”—Nature.

“Dr. Marie Stopes has made a name for herself in this special line. Anyone who takes an intelligent interest in the subject cannot fail to be charmed with the pleasant manner in which Dr. Stopes conveys her information.”—AthenÆum.

PLATE I.

COMMON BRACKEN FERN (see p. 133)

THE STUDY OF
PLANT LIFE

BY
M. C. STOPES
D.Sc.(Lond.), Ph.D.(Munich), F.L.S.
Lecturer in PalÆobotany at the University of Manchester

Second Edition

LONDON: BLACKIE & SON, LIMITED
NEW YORK: D. VAN NOSTRAND COMPANY
1910

PRINTED AT
THE VILLAFIELD PRESS
GLASGOW

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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