Publisher's Synopsis
Part of a two volume work which constitutes a general study on plant anatomy, this book completes the presentation of the types of data on which the vegetation organs of the dicotyledons is based.;The topics covered by the text include wood anatomy, anomalous structure, ecological anatomy and morphology and anatomy in relation to taxonomy and phylogeny. A survey of secreted substances and secretory organs leads on to a brief survey of the related subject of chemotaxonomy. A revised version of Takhatjan's taxonomic systems for the dicotyledons is also included.
