The Project Gutenberg eBook, Vegetable Teratology, by Maxwell T. Masters, Illustrated by E. M. Williams

Title: Vegetable Teratology

An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants

Author: Maxwell T. Masters

Release Date: November 6, 2007 [eBook #23354]

Language: English

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TABLE OF CONTENTS.

•  PAGE
• INTRODUCTION xxi
• BOOK I.
• DEVIATIONS FROM ORDINARY ARRANGEMENT 1
• PART I.—Union of Organs 8
• CHAPTER I.
• Cohesion 9

• Cohesion between axes of same plant, 9—Fasciation, 11—Cohesion of foliar organs, 21—Of margins of single organs, 21—Tubular petals, 23—Cohesion of several organs by their margins, 25—Of the sepals, 27—Of the petals, 28—Of the stamens, 29—Of the pistils, 29—Ascidia or pitchers, 30.

• CHAPTER II.
• Adhesion 32

• Adhesion of foliar organs, 32—Of leaves by their surfaces, 33—Of foliar to axile organs, 34—Of sepals to petals, 34—Of stamens to petals, 34—Of stamens to pistils, 35—Miscellaneous adhesions, 35—Of fruit to branch, 36—Synanthy, 36—Syncarpy, 45—Synspermy, 50—Between axes of different plants of same species, 50—And of different species, 55—Synophty.

• PART II.—Independence of Organs 58
• CHAPTER I.
• Fission 59

• Fission of axile organs, 60—Of foliar organs, 61—Of petals,