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UNIVERSITY EXTENSION MANUALS. EDITED BY PROFESSOR KNIGHT
CHAPTERS IN MODERN BOTANY
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Modern Botany
By PATRICK GEDDES
PROFESSOR OF BOTANY, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, DUNDEE
NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
1893
COPYRIGHT, 1893, BY CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
“ For him the woods were a home and gave him the key Of knowledge, thirst for their treasures in herbs and flowers, The secrets held by the creatures nearer than we To earth he sought, and the link of their life with ours : And where alike we are, unlike where, and the veine’ Division, veined parallel, of a blood that flows
In them, in us, from the source by man unattained,
Save mark he well what the mystical woods disclose.”
MEREDITH, MWelampus.
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CONTENTS
CHAPTER I PITCHER PLANTS
Darlingtonia — Sarracenia — Origin of Darlingtonia Pitchers — Insect- Catching — Other Relations to Insects — Minute Struc- ture of these Pitchers — Australian Pitcher Plant ( Cephalotus) — The Pitcher Plant ie ad shige, — Secreting Glands and Nectaries : c , - 2 Pages I-20
CHAPTER II
PITCHER PLANTS — continued
Use of Pitchers, “ Bionomics” — Bionomics — Bionomtcs of Nepen- thes — Morphology of the Pitcher — Bladderwort— Bionomics of Bladderwort— Allied Forms : : : : 21-35
CHAPTER III
OTHER INSECTIVOROUS PLANTS — DIFFICULTIES AND CRITICISMS
Fly-Traps (Dionea and Aldrovanda) — Sundews and Birdlime Traps — Butterworts — Sundews proper (Drosera) — Detattls, Functional and Structural — Digestion — Movements — Ab-
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