Genera Siphonogamarum ad Systema Englerianum conscripta

Abstract

THE completion of the “Genera Siphonogamarum,” by Drs. K. W. von Dalla Torre and H. Harms, will have been welcomed by all students of the taxonomy of siphonogams—or, as we are still used to say, phanerogams—and no doubt also by many other botanists. Invaluable as Engler and Prantl's “Natüfliche Pflanzenfamilien” is as the embodiment of the most recent researches in the systematic botany of phanerogams, it suffers from one serious omission, the lack of all references to the Original descriptions of the genera and their subdivisions. To fill that gap was the primary object of the publication of the “Genera Spihonogamarum.” At the same time it was intended to make the synonymy of the genera as complete as possible, and give a comprehensive description, on the one hand, of their disposition within the families and the Englerian system generally, and, on the other, of their subdivisions. Lastly, the work should serve as a catalogue for those botanical collections which are arranged after the “Natürliche Pflanzenfamilien”; and there is no doubt that in most respects the problem has been solved in an admirable way.

Genera Siphonogamarum ad Systema Englerianum conscripta.

By Dr. K. W. von Dalla Torre Dr. H. Harms. (Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 1900–1907.)