Chapter 7: Plant Geography

• The science of the distribution of plants
• The territorial limits to vegetation
• The natural circumstances affecting the distribution of plants
• Temperature has the influence on vegetation
• Temperature Table by Humboldt
• Effect of elevation on climate
• The plants of high latitudes
• Cold and lofty situations for plants
• Elevation influences the habits of plants
• Plant growth in different environments
• The habits of aquatic plants
• The nature of the earth's surface
• Earths and soils in relation to plant growth
• Mixed or secondary soils
• Aquatic soils
• Earthy soils
• Vegetable soils
• Parasitical mosses, lichens, and fungi
• Parasitical plants
• The structure and physiology of parasites
• Parasitical British weeds
• Light as an influence on the structure of vegetables
• Plants and the art of man
• Acclimatising plants to cold and hot climates
• Domesticated plants
• The effect of culture on plants
• The culinary vegetables
• The influence of culture on fruits
• The influence of culture on ornamental plants
• The influence of civilisation and culture on plants
• The successful formation of artificial climates
• The social and antisocial habits of plants
• Scitamineﾵ and Liliaceﾵ palms
• The native countries of plants
• Vegetation re taste and imagination

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