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THIS is the second volume of a more extensive work entitled “Elemente der wissenschaftlichen Botanik,” the first volume of which dealt with the anatomy and physio logy of plants. The first part of this the second volume is occupied with organography: the author recognises five fundamental types of vegetative organs, viz. “phyllom, caulom, rhizicom, trichom, thallom,” and thus ignores the conclusion of Sachs, that stem, leaf, and root are not coordinate categories, but that the root should rather be coordinated with the shoot, a structure composed jointly of stem and leaf. Further, he cites the sporangia of Ferns as examples of trichomes (p. 5), and I thus does not adopt the view of Goebel, that the sporangium is an independent organ, and is not referable to the categories of vegetative organs. These two points: are sufficient to show that the book is not abreast of current morphological opinion.
Elemente der Organographie, Systematik, und Biologie der Pflanzen.
Von Dr. Julius Wiesner. (Wien: Alfred Hölder, 1884.)
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 29, 572 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/029572a0
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