The ideal reference for students of botany and horticulture, gardeners, and naturalists. The diverse external shapes and structures that make up flowering plant

First published in 1950, this monograph on the morphology of flowering plants explores the relationship between philosophy and botany.

In this book, the author analyzes plant form and how it has evolved in response to basic physical laws. He examines the ways these laws limit the organic expres

This study arose out ofthe old question of what actually determines vegetation structure and distributions. Is climate the overriding control, as one would supp