Handbuch der Blütenbiologie

摘要: THIS valuable summary of available information concerning the pollination exotic flowers maintains high standard preceding volumes, othough it naturally deals with knowledge essentially fragmentary and only rarely founded on a statistical basis. The work does not limit itself to imparting upon actual observations pollination, but in some cases includes accounts forms colours flowers, arrangement their nectaries, even microscopical details fertilisation. As examples various matters dealt with, following may be cited:—Freycinetia its suggested by bats, remarkable synchronous blossoming habits Dendrobium crumenatum, parthenogenesis Ficus, Kooders's tropical geocarpous plants, fertilisation Rhopalocnemis, peculiar commelinaceous Cochliostema morphology, species Yucca relations Pronuba. Handbuch der Blutenbiologie. Begrundet von Dr. Paul Knuth. iii. Band. Die bisher aussereuropaischen Gebieten gemachten bluten-biologischen Beobachtungen unter Mitwirkung Otto Appel. Bearbeitet und herausgegeben Ernst Loew. i. Theil. Cycadaceae bis tornaceae. Pp. 570; mit 141 Abbildungen im Text. (Leipzig: Engelmann, 1904.) Price 17s. net.