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IN a brief notice of the first part of Dr. Schenck's “Beitrage”(NATURE, vol. xli., p. 514), the fact that it was only the first part was overlooked; hence the remark that all the plates of that part were devoted to the illustration of the external morphology of chiefly woody climbers loses the force it would have had, had it referred to the whole work. The second part has now appeared, and this treats of the anatomy, whilst the first treats of the biology of this class of plants. The two volumes form a valuable book of reference on tjtiis subject; and. the illustrations include examples of the anatomy of the stems of climbing plants belonging to about twenty-five-natural orders. There are twelve large folded plates containing 178 figures, all very laboriously and carefully drawn. The Sapindaceæ and Leguminosæ are most numerously represented, and present some highly curious structures.
Beiträgesur Biologie und Anatomie der Lianen, im Beson-deren der in Brasilien einheimischen Arten.
Von Dr. H. Schenck. Zweiter Theil. Beiträge zur Anatomie der Lianen. 8vo. pp. 271, tt. 12. (Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1893.)
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H., W. Beiträgesur Biologie und Anatomie der Lianen, im Besonderen der in Brasilien einheimischen Arten. Nature 48, 53 (1893). https://doi.org/10.1038/048053a0
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