| FIRST BOOK. | |
| History of Morphology and Classification. | |
| 1530-1860. | |
| PAGE | |
| Introduction | 3 |
| CHAPTER I. | |
| The Botanists of Germany and the Netherlands from Brunfels to Caspar Bauhin, 1530-1623 | 13 |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| Artificial Systems and Terminology of Organs from Cesalpino to Linnaeus, 1583-1760 | 37 |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| Development of the Natural System under the Influence of the Dogma of the Constancy of Species, 1759-1850 | 108 |
| CHAPTER IV. | |
| Morphology under the Influence of the Doctrine of Metamorphosis and of the Spiral Theory, 1790-1850 | 155 |
| CHAPTER V. | |
| Morphology and Systematic Botany under the Influence of the History of Development and the knowledge of the Cryptogams, 1840-1860 | 182 |
| SECOND BOOK. | |
| History of Vegetable Anatomy. | |
| 1671-1860. | |
| Introduction | 219 |
| CHAPTER I. | |
| Phytotomy founded by Malpighi and Grew, 1671-1682 | 229 |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| Phytotomy in the Eighteenth Century | 246 |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| Examination of the Matured Framework of Cell-Membrane in Plants, 1800-1840 | 256 |
| CHAPTER IV. | |
| History of Development of the Cell, Formation of Tissues, Molecular Structure of Organised Forms, 1840-1860 | 311 |
| THIRD BOOK. | |
| History of Vegetable Physiology. | |
| 1583-1860. | |
| Introduction | 359 |
| CHAPTER I. | |
| History of the Sexual Theory | |
| 1. From Aristotle to R. J. Camerarius | 376 |
| 2. Establishment of the Doctrine of Sexuality in Plants by R. J.Camerarius, 1691-1694 | 385 |
| 3. Dissemination of the New Doctrine; its Adherents and Opponents, 1700-1760 | 390 |
| 4. The Theory of Evolution and Epigenesis | 402 |
| 5. Further Development of the Sexual Theory by J. G. Koelreuter and Konrad Sprengel, 1761-1793 | 406 |
| 6. New opponents of Sexuality and their refutation by Experiments, 1785-1849 | 422 |
| 7. Microscopic Investigation into the Processes of Fertilisation in the Phanerogams, the Pollen-Tube and Eggs, 1830-1850 | 431 |
| 8. Discovery of Sexuality in the Cryptogams, 1837-1860 | 436 |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| History of the Theory of Nutrition of Plants, 1583-1860 | 445 |
| 1. Cesalpino, 1583 | 450 |
| 2. First Inductive Experiments and Opening of New Points of View in the History of the Theory of the Nutrition of Plants, to 1730 | 453 |
| 3. Fruitless Attempts to Explain the Movement of the Sap in Plants, 1730-1780 | 482 |
| 4. The Modern Theory of Nutrition Founded by Ingen-Houss and Theodore de Saussure, 1779-1804 | 491 |
| 5. Vital Force. Respiration and Heat of Plants. Endosmose, 1804-1840 | 504 |
| 6. Settlement of the Question of Food-Material of Plants, 1840-1860 | 524 |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| History of Phytodynamics | |
| From end of 17th century to about 1860 | 535 |
| Index | 565 |