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THE appreciable advances in our knowledge of lower plants during the present century has led to the publication, especially on the Continent, of a large number of relevant works, but most of these deal with Algae or Fungi only as the case may be. A comparative treatment of the lowerplants is therefore to be welcomed, and there can be no doubt that Prof.Schussnig has produced a book that will take its place among the accredited works on Thallophyta. This first volume is divided into four sections, two dealing with the cell and cell-division and two with the organization of the multicellular thallus. Here also is included a considerationof structure in relation to physiological function which is as unconvincing as most earlier accounts dealing with this topic.
Vergleichende Morphologie der niederen Pflanzen:
eine Einführung in deren Formbildung und Form-wechsel auf entwicklungsgeschichtlicher Grundlage. Von Prof. Dr. Bruno Schussnig. Teil 1: Formbildung. Pp. viii + 382. (Berlin: Gebrüder Borntraeger, 1938.) 36 gold marks.
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FRITSCH, F. Vergleichende Morphologie der niederen Pflanzen. Nature 143, 47 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143047a0
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