Abstract
IT is said of this book by the author that it is "an effort to meet present conditions,"but it is not very clear what these conditions are. The book is divided into sections on morphology, physiology, and classification, the last including1 general descriptions of the great plant groups. Some of the drawings, such as Fig. 30, representing a lenticel, and Fig. 152, depicting the pine cone and its parts, can only be described as crude; but the photographs of individual plants, of which there are many, are much more successful. A number of maps are given showing the various areas of crop production in the United States, and economic plants of all kinds are frequently introduced into the descriptions. The book would seem to be most suitable for American students beginning the study of agriculture.
College Botany: Structure, Physiology, and Economics of Plants.
Dr.
M. T.
Cook
By. Pp. x + 392. (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1920.) 12s. 6d. net.
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College Botany: Structure, Physiology, and Economics of Plants . Nature 107, 807 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/107807c0
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