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THIS title recalls that which was used in 1793 by Christan Konrad Sprengel, and to him the author traces the beginning of the bionomical study of flowers and their fertilisation which forms the subject of the little book before us. Since Sprengel laid the foundations there have been many workers, notably Darwin and Hermann Müller, and many new facts have come to light, while others observed more than a century ago have been rendered more precise. Therefore the author has been led to supply an introduction to the study, simple enough for beginners, and at the same time up-to-date. His method has been to select two dozen common plants, in flower at various times of year from February to October, and to tell the story of their pollination.
Blütengeheimnisse: Eine Blütenbiologie in Einzelbildern.
By Georg Worgitzky. Mit 25 Abbildungen im Text. Buchschmuck von J. V. Cissarz. Pp. x + 134. (Leipzig: Teubner, 1901). Price 3 marks.
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Blütengeheimnisse: Eine Blütenbiologie in Einzelbildern . Nature 64, 444 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/064444a0
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