Abstract
THIS unusual book should prove valuable in inspiring enthusiasm for what is so often made a very dull branch of botany to the average student. Each flower is carefully described in readable language, so that, once having worked through the book, the student can turn to his more compact Flora well armed and ready to follow floral taxonomy with interest. The diagrams are singularly attractive, but there seems no excuse for their being reproduced on such a large scale, since most of them are either floral diagrams or halves of flowers. Nearly all could have been reduced to a quarter of their present size, without detracting from their usefulness; thus reducing considerably the size and possibly the price of the book.
The Biology of Flowers
W. O.
James
A. R.
Clapham
By. Pp. viii + 116 + 41 plates. (Oxford: Clarendon Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1935.) 8s. 6d. net.
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The Biology of Flowers. Nature 136, 494 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136494b0
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