- 5. Strasburger. Das Botanische Practicum.—Jena.
Where the student reads German, the original is to be preferred, as it is much more complete than the translations, which are made from an abridgment of the original work. This book and the next (7 and 8) are laboratory manuals, and are largely devoted to methods of work.
- 7. Arthur, Barnes, and Coulter. Plant Dissection.—Holt & Co., New York.
- 8. Whitman. Methods in Microscopic Anatomy and Embryology.—Casino & Co., Boston.
For identifying plants the following books may be mentioned:—
- Green algæ (exclusive of desmids, but including Cyanophyceæ and Volvocineæ).
- Wolle. Fresh-water Algæ of the United States.—Bethlehem, Penn.
- Desmids. Wolle. Desmids of the United States.—Bethlehem, Penn.
- The red and brown algæ are partially described in Farlow’s New England Algæ. Report of United States Fish Commission, 1879.—Washington.
- The Characeæ are being described by Dr. F. F. Allen of New York. The first part has appeared.
- The literature of the fungi is much scattered. Farlow and Trelease have prepared a careful index of the American literature on the subject.
- Mosses. Lesquereux and James. Mosses of North America.—Boston, Casino & Co.
- Barnes. Key to the Genera of Mosses.—Bull. Purdue School of Science, 1886.
- Pteridophytes. Underwood. Our Native Ferns and their Allies.—Holt & Co., New York.
- Spermaphytes. Gray. Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States. 6th edition, 1890. This also includes the ferns, and the liverworts.—New York, Ivison & Co.
- Coulter. Botany of the Rocky Mountains.—New York, Ivison & Co.
- Chapman. Flora of the Southern United States.—New York, 1883.
- Watson. Botany of California.
FOOTNOTES.
[1] For the mounting of permanent preparations, see [Chapter XIX].
[2] The term “colony” is, perhaps, inappropriate, as the whole mass of cells arises from a single one, and may properly be looked upon as an individual plant.
[3] Algæ (sing. alga).
[4] “Host,” the plant or animal upon which a parasite lives.