Nature

Domestic Botany: an Exposition of the Structure and Classification of Plants, and of their Uses for Food, Clothing, Medicine, and Manufacturing Purposes

THE greater part of this thick volume consists of a brief description of the distinguishing characters of the most important orders of Flowering and Flowerless Plants, with a longer account of the ...
Nature

Practical Botany for Elementary Students Introductory to the Systematic Study of Flowering Plants

THIS book differs from Mr. Bettany's (vol. xxiv. p. 235) in being less general in its treatment. It is in fact a series of studies of the coarse anatomy of a number of common plants much on the plan ...
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Branches of Botany: Trichomes, or ‘hair,’ act as plants’ protectors

Glandular trichomes on the leaf tip of the sundew plant (Drosera filiformis) resemble dewdrops. In some lineages of plants, hairs do not provide protection. They function as a tool to gather essential ...
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Heritage of the Romantic Philosophy in Post-Linnaean Botany Reichenbach's Reception of Goethe's Metamorphosis of Plants as a Methodological and Philosophical Framework

This paper demonstrates the importance of the reception and development of Goethe's metamorphosis of plants as a methodological and philosophical framework in the history of botanical theories. It ...
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Pollen Grains in the Identification and Classification of Plants VI. Polygonaceae

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Published by the Botanical Society of America continuously since 1914, the American Journal of Botany (AJB) is the Society’s ...
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Scientists were baffled by this fruit's quirky biology — but indigenous people knew the answer for centuries

Every day, new species discoveries make big headlines in the news, but scientists are also realizing just how many “undiscovered” species are hiding in plain sight. These species lie buried within ...