BOTANY* 



Morphology of Gymnosperms. 



By JOHN MERLE COULTER, Ph.D., Head of 

 Department of Botany, The University of Chicago, 

 and CHARLES JAMES CHAMBERLAIN, Instructor in 

 Botany, The University of Chicago. Illustrated. 

 8vo. Cloth, 1 88 pages. $1.75. 



The Gymnosperms, as the most primitive seed 

 plant, are of special morphological importance, and 

 are very inadequately presented in current general 

 texts. This book brings together and organizes the 

 widely scattered results of investigation. It is not 

 a compilation, but a combination of published results, 

 supplemented and guided by several years of original 

 investigation. The authors have sought to disen- 

 tangle and simplify a confused terminology which 

 has heretofore obscured a very consistent mor- 

 phology. The essential morphology of the great 

 groups is considered in detail, the fossil forms are 

 represented in the light of recent important dis- 

 coveries, the comparative morphology of the group 

 as a whole is discussed, and the part closes with 

 chapters on phylogeny and geographic distribution. 

 The illustrations are numerous and the majority of 

 them are original. The book is addressed to special 

 students of morphology, of the evolution of the plant 

 kingdom, and of the paleobotany. 



D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, 



NEW YORK. BOSTON. CHICAGO. LONDON. 



