Preface |
Introduction |
Of The Parts Of Plants And Their Composition Of Classification / Book I: |
Introductory: How plants are to be classified; difficulty of defining what are the essential ' parts' of a plant, especially if plants are assumed to correspond to animals |
The essential parts of plants, and the materials of which they are made |
Definitions of the various classes into which plants may be divided |
Exact classification impracticable: other possible bases of classification |
Differences as to appearance and habitat |
Characteristic differences in the parts of plants, whether general, special, or seen in qualities and properties |
Differences as to qualities and properties |
Further special differences |
Differences in root Of trees (principally) and their characteristic special differences: as to knots As to habit |
As to shedding of leaves Differences in leaves |
Composition of the various parts of a plant |
Differences in seeds |
Differences in taste |
Differences in flowers |
Differences in fruits |
General differences (affecting the whole plant) |
Of Propagation, Especially of Trees Of the ways in which trees and plants originate / Book II: |
Instances of degeneration from seed |
Effects of situation, climate, tendance |
Of spontaneous changes in the character of trees, and of certain marvels |
Of spontaneous and other changes in other plants Of methods of propagation, with notes on cultivation |
Of the propagation of the date-palm; of palms in general Further notes on the propagation of trees |
Of the cultivation of trees |
Of remedies for the shedding of the fruit: caprification |
Of Wild Tubes Of the ways in which wild trees originate Of the differences between wild and cultivated trees / Book III: |
Of mountain trees: of the differences found in wild trees |
Of the times of budding and fruiting of wild, as compared with cultivated, trees |
Of the seasons of budding |
Of the comparative rate of growth in trees, and of the length of their roots |
Of the effects of cutting down the whole or part of a tree |
Of other things borne by trees besides their leaves flowers and fruit |
Of 'male' and 'female' in trees : the oak as an example of this and other differences |
Of the differences in firs |
Of beech, yew, hop-hornbeam, lime |
Of maple and ash |
Of cornelian cherry, cornel, 'cedars,' medlar, thorns, sorb |
Of bird-cherry, elder, willow ? |
Of elm, poplars, alder, [semyda, bladder-senna] |
Of filbert, terebinth, box, krataigos |
Of certain other oaks, arbutus, andrachne, wig-tree |
Of cork-oak, kolatea, koloitia, and of certain other trees peculiar to particular localities |
Of the differences in various shrubs-buckthorn, withy, Christ's thorn, bramble, sumach, ivy, smilax, [spindle-tree] |
Of The Trees And Plants Special To Particular Districts And Positions / Book IV: |
Of the importance of position and climate |
Of the trees special to Egypt, and of the carob Of the trees and shrubs special to Libya |
Of the trees and herbs special to Asia Of the plants special to northern regions |
Of the aquatic plants of the Mediterranean |
Of the aquatic plants of the 'outer sea' (i.e. Atlantic, Persian Gulf, etc.) |
Of the plants of rivers, marshes, and lakes, especially in Egypt |
Of the plants peculiar to the lake of Orchomenos (Lake Copa# |
Preface |
Introduction |
Of The Parts Of Plants And Their Composition Of Classification / Book I: |