Crossword-Solution: PHYTO 5 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

When we dissect a leaf in its primal development, we find that its cells contain colorless globules, by botanists called chlorophyl or phyto-color; these undergo changes according as they are acted upon by light, oxygen, or other agents, producing green, yellow, red, and other tints.

Etym: [Phyto- + chemistry.] Defn: Chemistry in its relation to vegetable bodies; vegetable chemistry.

Etym: [Phyto- + lithology.] Defn: The branch of science which treats of fossil plants; -- usually called paleobotany, sometimes paleophytology.

The material presented in the book has been developed from a series of lecture-notes which was used in connection with a course in "Phyto-chemistry" which was offered for several years to the students of the Plant Science Group of the University of Minnesota.

The classification of the land surface into areas inhabited by distinctive groups of plants has been attempted by many phyto-geographers, but without resulting in any scheme of general acceptance.