Elements of Botany

Contents: Preface. 1. Plant kingdom: introduction. 2. Classification of angiosperms. 3. Bryophytes. 4. Pteridophytes. 5. Gymnosperms. 6. Algae. 7. Fungi, bacteria and viruses. 8. Plant ecology. 9. The structure of stem. 10. Structure of coniferous stem. 11. The structure of roots. 12. The structure of leaf. 13. Vegetative structure of fungi. 14. Reproductive of the higher fungi and of lichens.

"With these characters as a guide it should be easy to classify any of the larger organisms into plant or animal, but difficulties arise when we come to some of the smaller organisms. Thus the fungi are heterotrophic but they are static and they have indefinite growth: they do not fall readily into either category--plant or animal. Fortunately the issue is not important and no one to day insists on this binary classification of all groups of organisms." (jacket)