Abstract
THE present volume is the forty-fifth of a series of monographs, comprising the “Pflanzen-reich,” and the third which deals with the great family of orchids. Of the three latter, the few diandrous genera formed the subject of the first, the work of the late Prof. Ernest Pfitzer, while the second volume, begun by Pfitzer, and completed by Dr. Kranzlin, dealt with the small group of the Coelo-gyninae. The bulky “Heft” by Dr. Kranzlin, which is the subject of this notice, is devoted to the great genus Dendrobium and its immediate allies. It is evident therefore that there is still very much to be done before we have, what has been a desideratum since the time of Lindley, a complete monograph of this large and important natural order.
Das Pflanzenretch, Regni vegetabilis conspectus.
Edited by A. Engler. N. 50, II., B. 21, Orchidaceæ, Monandræ, Dendrobiinæ. Pars i., genera n. 275–277. By Fr. Kränzlin. Pp. 382. (Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 1910.) Price 19.20 marks.
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R., A. Das Pflanzenretch, Regni vegetabilis conspectus . Nature 86, 308 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/086308a0
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