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Botanisches Centralblatt 



Referirendes Organ 



der 



Association Internationale des Botanistes 

 für das Gesamtgebiet der Botanik. 



Herausgegeben unter der Leitung 

 des Präsidenten: des Vice- Präsidenten: des Secretärs: 



Dr. D. H. Scott. Prof. Dr. Wm. Trelease. Dr. J. P. Lotsy. 



und der Redactions-Commissions- Mitglieder : 



Prof. Dr. Wm. Trelease, Dr. G. Bonaventura, Ä. D. Gotton, 



Prof. Dr. G. Wehmer und Dr. G. H. Ostenfeld. 



von zahlreichen Specialredacteuren in den verschiedenen Ländern. 



Dr. J. P. Lotsy, Chefredacteur. 



No. 30. 



Abonnement für das halbe Jahr 15 Mark 

 durch alle Buchhandlungen und Postanstalten. 



1915. 



Alle für die Redaction bestimmten Sendungen sind zu richten an: 

 Redaction des Botanischen Centralblattes, Haarlem (Holland), Spaarne 17. 



Bessey, C. E. and E. A. Bessey. Essentials of College 

 botany. (New York, Henry Holt & Co. 1914.) 



A new and rewritten edition of Bessey, The Essentials of 

 Botany, of 409 pages, with 206 diagrammatic illustrations. The first 

 chapter is devoted to cytology, the second and third treat of histo- 

 logy, the fourth is physiological and the fifth is given to the che- 

 mistry of plants. Chapter 6 deals with Classification and geological 

 histo^3^ and the series from 7 to 20 inclusive outlines the vegetable 

 Kingdom with an exemplification of Professor Bessey's views ot 

 Taxonomy, the concluding chapter dealing comparatively with 

 the fourteen Phyla that he recognizes. One chapter, the twenty-first, 

 is given to special adaptations such as thorns, floral color and 

 odor, etc. Trelease. 



Coulter, J. G., Plant life and plant uses. An elementary 

 textbook: a foundation for the study of agriculture; 

 domestic science or College botany. (New York — Cincin- 

 nate — Chicago, p. XVI, 464. 1914.) 



An instructive presentation of the subject from an unusual 

 viewpoint. Trelease. 



Curtis, C. C, iVature and development of plants. Third 

 edition, revised. rNew York, Henry Holt & Co. 8». p. VII, 506. 

 f. 342. 1942.) 



A College text, successively treating of the leaf, the root, the 

 stem, the flower, fruit and seedling;and of Classification. Thallophyta, 

 Bryophyta, Pteridophyta, and Spermatophyta. Trelease. 



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