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department for ladies 363 BOTANY By Professor Bentley Monday Michaelmas Term This course will bo on "The Structure and Functions of the Organs of Plants which are necessary to their Life and will be arranged in two divisions as follows Part Structural Botany Introductory Structure of the Seed Process of Germination Organs of Plants Nutritive and Reproductive Organs Of the Nutritive Organs The Stem or Caulome General Summary of its Structure in Dicotyledonous Monocotyle- donous and Acotyledonous Plants Of the Exogenous or IDicotyledonous Stem Pith Wood Medullary Rays Bark Age and Size of Trees Of the Endogenous or Monocoty- ledonous Stem Of the Acrogenous or Acotyledonous Stem The Root Distinctive Characters of Roots and Stems Its Structure The Leaf or Phyllome General Description and Parts of the Leaf Deciduous and Evergreen Plants Part II Physiological Botany or the Plant in "a State of Life Introductory Life of the Plant Food of Plants Sources of the Food Epiphytes Parasites Saprophytes Organic or Volatile Constituents Inorganic Constituents of Ash Rotation of Crops and General Applications of our knowledge of the Food of Plants in Horticulture and Agriculture Absorption of Liquid Food by the Root Osmotic Action Practical Applications in Transplantation Distribution of Fluid Matters Through the Plant Course of the Fluid Force of its Ascent Crude Sap Elaborated Sap Functions of Leaves Transpiration Causes Amount Influence of in Nature Absorption and Exhalation of Gases Causes Nature Respiration Assimilation Meta- statis or Metabolism Constructive Materials Degradation