Excerpt from Relation of Plants to Environment (or Plant Ecology): Outlines of a Course of Lectures Delivered in the Summer School of Cornell University 1903 and 1904 Variety of conditions developed variety of forms. Plants no consciousness or choice in general sense. Inherent quality. Environment Sexual selection etc. Examples, cactus, yucca, cucurbits, oak. Process of organization and change of form a slow one. Members of the plant body. Simplest forms do not have members. Members recognized when certain parts perform certain functions. A'lgae, fungi, sea wrack or ulva. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.