Lehrbuch der Ökologischen Pflanzengeagraphie eine einführung in die kenntniss der Pflanzemiereine

Abstract

AN account of the principles underlying the facts of the geographical distribution of plants has long been a desideratum. Although various persons have written on the subject, they have not, for the most part, approached it from the point of view which, thanks largely to the often decried “laboratory system,” we are enabled to do at the present time. In fact, until botanists had given up restricting their attention to species, and to the grosser external characters of plants, it was not possible for them to apprehend how intimately the welfare, and consequently the distribution, of the organism and of the species is bound up with minute and often apparently trivial details of structure. It is true that the general characters of what we may term the Habitus of groups of plants had been more or less clearly denned. Humboldt and Grisebach had already distinguished numerous dominant types, and had indicated the general nature of their relationships.

Lehrbuch der Ökologischen Pflanzengeagraphie eine einführung in die kenntniss der Pflanzemiereine.

Von Dr. Eugen Warming. Deutsche Ausgabe von Dr. E. Knoblauch. (Berlin: Gebrüder Borntraeger, 1896.)