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THIS volume contains a great number of articles dealing with the botany and geology of South America. The botanical contributions cover a wide field including taxonomy, ecology, plant geography, economic botany, cytology and genetics. There are also accounts of rubber culture, fibre plants and a sketch of the geology of the Antilles and a brief account of the general geological features of South America.
Plants and Plant Science in Latin America
Edited by Frans Verdoorn. (A New Series of Plant Science Books, Vol. 16.) Pp. x1 + 384 (38 plates). (Waltham, Mass.: Chronica Botanica Co.; London: Wm. Dawson and Sons, Ltd., 1945.) 6 dollars.
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Plants and Plant Science in Latin America. Nature 156, 676 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/156676b0
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