CHAPTER II 



THE FLOWER 



THE morphology of the flower of Angiosperms has an enor- 

 mous literature, much of which is now more curious than valu- 

 able. It is not the purpose of this book to present the numerous 

 details and extensive terminology that were so conspicuous a 

 feature of the older morphology, dominated as it was by the 

 doctrine of metamorphosis. For these the student is referred 

 to Eichler's Bluthendiagramme (1875 '78), in which may be 

 found the most complete account of the flower of Angiosperms- 

 from this standpoint. The English student will also find an 

 admirable short account of the same subject from the same 

 standpoint in Gray's Structural Botany (1879). A presenta- 

 tion that combines much of the older method of treatment with 

 newer points of view appears in Goebel's Outlines of Classi- 

 fication and Special Morphology of Plants (English transla- 

 tion, 1887). Among the later important literature the follow- 

 ing may be consulted: Goebel's Vergleichende Entwicklungs- 

 geschichte der Pflanzenorgane in Schenck's Handbuch der 

 Botanik (3 ': 99-432. figs. 126. 1884); Celakovsky's Ueber 

 den phylogenetischen Entwicklungsgang der Bliite und liber 

 den Ursprung der Blumenkrone, I and II (Sitzber. Konigl. 

 Bohm. Gesell. Wiss. 1896 and 1900) ; Eamiller's Biogenetische 

 Untersuchungen iiber verkummerte oder mngebildete Sexualor- 

 gane (Flora 82: 133-168. figs. 10. 1896) ; Engler and Prantl's- 

 Die Natiirlichen Pflanzenf amilien ; .Goebel's Organographie der 

 Pflanzen (vol. ii, 1901).* These works and others like them 

 must be consulted for the details of the structure of angio- 



* It should be understood that in this mention of the literature of the 

 flower only certain important works are cited, and that only in the subse- 

 quent chapters is there any attempt at presenting fairly complete lists of the 

 important literature. 



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