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THE introduction of this posthumous work contains a short historical sketch of vegetable biology, as foreshadowed by the elder Agardh, Delpino (to whose memory the book is dedicated), Haeckel, and others. The scope of the book itself is best indicated by the chapter headings: I. General conceptions and limits of vegetable ecology; II. Ecological principle of vegetable organisation; III. Ecological principles of vegetable associations; IV. Ecology of dissemination; V. Aerophylactic function in the vegetable kingdom; VI. Hydrophylactic function in the vegetable kingdom; VII. Form and evolution of the earliest vegetable life. VIII. Ecological conception of the evolution of the vegetable kingdom.
Problemi di Filosofia Botanica.
By Antonino Borzi. Pp. 344. (Roma: G. Bardi, 1920.) 60 lire.
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Problemi di Filosofia Botanica . Nature 109, 547 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/109547c0
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