Abstract
MOST of the papers in this part are in abstract; a few however are given at some length, and are of considerable interest. The additions to the phanerogamous Flora of Silesia and the record of new localities for rare plants occupy a considerable part of the pamphlet. Perhaps the most interesting paper is that on the Date-palm and Palm-forest at Elche in Spain, by General von Schweinitz. The palms there grow to a height of from seventy-five to eighty feet. The plants grow for about 100 years, then become stationary, and next decay. Each tree bears from the fifth year two to five bunches of fruit, each with from 500 to 600 dates, the weight of dates yielded by one tree being sometimes three centners. Many of the papers in this part are contributed by Goeppert and Cohn, and deal with all departments of botany. Dr. Thalheim describes a series of models of diatoms made in paraffin and glycerine soap, which exhibited the structure of all the chief groups of this order of plants.
Bericht über die Thätigkeit der Botanuchen Section der Schlesischen Gesellschaft im Jahr 1877.
Erstattet von Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Cohn.
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Bericht über die Thätigkeit der Botanuchen Section der Schlesischen Gesellschaft im Jahr 1877. Nature 23, 264 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/023264d0
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